Utah ended Medicaid coverage for a large share of enrollees whose eligibility was reevaluated in 2023, following a 3-year pause during the pandemic. Most people dropped in Medicaid ‘unwinding ...

But the Utah survey of more than 1,000 disenrolled Medicaid beneficiaries, conducted in October, found that 57% of people who left the program in 2023 never tried to renew their coverage.

In Utah, 94% of the people dropped from Medicaid rolls recently lost coverage without any determination of being ineligible. Their application/review process had not been completed.

Everyone is waiting to see what lawmakers will decide as they weigh billions in cuts to the program which could threaten health coverage for over 300,000 people in Utah.

In addition, the proportion of children enrolled in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) range from 8% to 43% across school districts in Utah including 27% and 23% of ...

Applying to Medicaid. If you want to apply to Medicaid, you should also know that: Once you're approved, you'll get a Medicaid card. This is your ID card.

The state has dropped more than 130,000 of its 500,000 Medicaid beneficiaries since April and about 30 percent of those disenrolled were left uninsured, which could be a bad sign for the rest of ...

Through a collaborative effort between State and Federal entities, the envisioned program could allocate approximately $2.6-million-dollars in fiscal 2026 and $5-million-dollars in fiscal 2027 ...

Many Medicaid enrollees, she said, didn’t know they had to reapply. “A lot of people thought it was like the federal stimulus checks and was just a one-time benefit,” she said. Utah fully expanded ...