What Do Medicaid Unwinding Data by Race and Ethnicity Show?
A recent analysis by KFF explores the unwinding of the pandemic continuous enrollment provision in Medicaid, with a focus on its impact on different racial and ethnic groups. This analysis was based on data from the nine states reporting data that allowed for analysis of disenrollment patterns by race and ethnicity as of September 2023: Arizona, California, Indiana, Minnesota, Oregon, Nevada, Oklahoma, Virginia, and Washington. The analysis found that across these states, the racial and ethnic composition of people losing coverage generally mirrors that of the overall Medicaid population. While available data on Medicaid disenrollments by race/ethnicity suggest people of color are not at greater risk of being disenrolled, the data...
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