The national COVID-19 emergencies are set to expire in just over three months, but Alaska health officials expect to see marked disruptions.
“The Medicaid programs had to — essentially kept anyone who was eligible for the program at any point in time — they were maintained in the program throughout the duration of the public health emergency,” Kosin said.
With the pandemic seemingly becoming more manageable, a redetermination for everyone on Medicaid will be made, as it has not been done for the last several years. That redetermination process applies to people across the country who have Medicaid.“When you’re talking about a redetermination process or renewal process, when you’re talking about thousands of thousands of lives, that’s a major event for health care and health care coverage,” Kosin said.
Kosin says that he and other healthcare professionals are working on outreach to ensure that those covered by Medicaid will continue to see coverage.“How is that going to unfold, and how do we all work together, both the department and all of us out in healthcare to make sure there’s strong outreach to minimize the disruptions to individual Alaskans and their healthcare coverage,” Kosin said.
. Pfizer has said the vaccine could cost recipients as much as $130 per dose. Free, federally-funded at-home COVID-19 tests are also coming to an end, and hospitals will no longer receive extra money for treating COVID-19 patients, according to the AP. Many factors must be taken into consideration, Kosin said, especially with the Biden administration planning to end the national emergency and public health emergency this coming May. Bills in the United States House of Representatives are trying to end the declarations even sooner.
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