(N.M.) About 85,000 residents to lose pandemic Medicaid coverage
An estimated 85,000 New Mexicans will see their Medicaid coverage end when the federal government lifts the public health emergency that’s been in place during the coronavirus pandemic.
State officials are working to ensure nearly all of them are shifted to other medical plans, including subsidized policies offered through the state’s health insurance exchange. “Our goal is to keep all the folks covered,” said Nicole Comeaux, New Mexico’s Medicaid director.
Like other states, New Mexico received extra federal dollars for Medicaid through a COVID-19 relief plan in return for keeping new patients enrolled until the declared health emergency was officially called off.
Nationally, health authorities call the upcoming transition an unwinding. State officials refer to it as the Medicaid roll-off.
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