Md. health dept. processed 1.5 million Medicaid enrollees in 12 months; one month left in 'unwinding' - Maryland Matters

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Md. health dept. processed 1.5 million Medicaid enrollees in 12 months; one month left in 'unwinding' - Maryland Matters

In March 2023, the Maryland Department of Health began sifting through almost 1.8 million Medicaid enrollees to see who still qualifies for the federal health care plan for low-income households. A year later, the department has processed over 1.5 million Medicaid enrollees, and has determined that most people still qualified, while hundreds of thousands of others were no longer eligible. Prior to the pandemic people with Medicaid insurance had …