Upcoming Medicaid redeterminations could further complicate healthcare operating environments, as hospitals and payers continue to face pandemic-driven challenges nearly three years into COVID-19, according to a new report from Moody’s Investor Services.
Medicaid enrollment rose substantially through the pandemic, growing from 70.7 million members in February 2020 to 90.9 million in September 2022, according to the report. The growth in enrollment numbers was driven by policies that suspended state Medicaid eligibility checks during the COVID-19 pandemic and barred states from kicking members off their rolls.
