A new study finds that up to 200,000 Massachusetts residents could lose their health insurance under two Medicaid provisions just passed by Congress.
Starting January, recipients of MassHealth -— the state’s Medicaid program — will have to get recertified every six months and have stricter work reporting requirements.
“Just these two provisions alone have the potential to increase our uninsurance rate by more than 50 percent,” said Kaitlyn Kenney Walsh, of The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, which analyzed the impact of those changes…