JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Gov. Mike Parson’s administration says Missouri’s improving economy is the main reason up to 70,000 people dropped off the state’s Medicaid rolls last year. But advocates are pointing to problems with a new renewal system as another reason for the decline.
The advocates say the Department of Social Services’ new system has several problems accessing data and automatically renews a low rate of Medicaid recipients.
An estimated 70,000 people fell off the state’s Medicaid rolls last year. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports in the first three months of this year, 12,000 more people no longer have Medicaid coverage.
A Department of Social Services statement to the Post-Dispatch says the department is working with federal authorities to find ways the state can automatically renew Medicaid eligibility reliably through federal data.
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