{"id":36663,"date":"2021-06-21T16:46:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T23:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36663"},"modified":"2021-06-21T16:46:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T23:46:58","slug":"medicaid-enrollment-reaches-high-of-74m-americans-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36663","title":{"rendered":"Medicaid enrollment reaches high of 74M Americans during pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of Americans enrolled in Medicaid reached a record of almost 74 million earlier this year after ballooning in enrollees during the pandemic, the administration announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/vjjmdqrbyffncqcfnkhyynmmyrnzfrfttgybqjzfvffpvg_ofttwwjzjdtlzkjtzwzq.html?a=&amp;b=40057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/vjjmdqrbyffncqcfnkhyynmmyrnzfrfttgybqjzfvffpvg_ofttwwjzjdtlzkjtzwzq.html?a%3D%26b%3D40057&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1624399545071000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGfdWM4nh1lGIoMwP88uwYI5pfPlQ\">Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) report<\/a>\u00a0documented the jump in Medicaid\u2019s enrollees by 9.7 million between February 2020 \u2014 before the U.S. declared public health emergency \u2014 and January 2021 in a 15 percent increase.<\/p>\n<p>The enrollment count marks the highest since the CMS started tracking the data in its current form in 2013,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/gltnsjwqmccdfjfcdkrmmdnnmwdpcwchhtmqjlpcyccgyl_ofttwwjzjdtlzkjtzwzq.html?a=&amp;b=40057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/gltnsjwqmccdfjfcdkrmmdnnmwdpcwchhtmqjlpcyccgyl_ofttwwjzjdtlzkjtzwzq.html?a%3D%26b%3D40057&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1624399545071000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGGL5-wKbHrStY35lLkSqOVBVIa3Q\">The Washington Post noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to Medicaid, enrollees in the Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) remained relatively stable throughout the time period, as states were not mandated to keep all enrollees during the emergency. The number of CHIP enrollees saw an uptick from almost 6.7 million to nearly 6.8 million in a 1.8 percent increase.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why the increase:<\/strong>\u00a0The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/nrdjgcwhkqqnbcbqntdkknjjkwnmqwqzzpkhcrmqyqqfyj_ofttwwjzjdtlzkjtzwzq.html?a=&amp;b=40057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/nrdjgcwhkqqnbcbqntdkknjjkwnmqwqzzpkhcrmqyqqfyj_ofttwwjzjdtlzkjtzwzq.html?a%3D%26b%3D40057&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1624399545071000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGE0Wc6D7ey85HNnXsEIeXvfpvy_g\">federal agency<\/a>\u00a0attributes the boost in enrollees to the Families First Coronavirus Response Act passed in March 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The first relief bill approved by Congress included a provision giving states a temporary 6.2 percent increase in funds to cover expected higher Medicaid costs, as long as these states did not remove any enrollees until after the emergency was declared over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe increase we are seeing is exactly how Medicaid works: the program steps in to support people and their families when times are tough,\u201d CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of Americans enrolled in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36664,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36663\/revisions\/36664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}