Variation in Procedural Denials of Medicaid Eligibility Across States Before the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMA Health Forum. 2023 Nov 3;4(11):e233892. doi: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2023.3892.

William L Schpero^{1

2}, Diksha Brahmbhatt¹, Michael X Liu¹, Chima D Ndumele³, Paula Chatterjee^{4

5}

¹ Division of Health Policy and Economics, Department of Population Health Sciences, Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College, New York, New York.
² Center for Health Equity, Cornell University, New York, New York.
³ Department of Health Policy and Management, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
⁵ Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

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Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study examines denials of Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program coverage due to procedural reasons.