Texas is seeing Medicaid crisis

State should take extra steps to make sure that recipients receive eligibility reviews.

The pandemic is over, and the resumption of Medicaid eligibility reviews this spring has been anything but smooth.

Nearly 405,000 recipients in Texas were bounced from Medicaid rolls for procedural reasons, such as missing paperwork deadlines. Another 96,000 people lost benefits when they were deemed ineligible for Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program.