Medicaid enrollment drops, but many newly insured patients switch to commercial plans

Medicaid enrollment drops, but many newly insured patients switch to commercial plans

Eligibility redeterminations for Medicaid enrollment were widely expected to result in many million more uninsured but the result was much more nuanced, according to hospital data. Medicaid enrollment peaked at 94.5 million in April 2023. That month the states restarted eligibility determinations, which were suspended under an unprecedented federal statutory change during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most states completed their Medicaid redeterminatio…