The offices of the Alabama Medicaid Agency, as seen on January 24, 2023. (Brian Lyman/Alabama Reflector)
About 370,000 Alabamians were removed from Medicaid in the 10 months after federal restrictions on disenrollment expired earlier this year.
While in line with national trends, the number in Alabama is significantly higher than an April 2023 estimate by KFF, a health policy research and news organization, which projected 170,000 total disenrollments in Alabama during the 12-month period.
“As it stands, Alabama is kind of mid-pack, I would say, in terms of when looking at unwinding outcomes, and particularly if you’re looking at disenrollment rates,” said Jennifer Tolbert, deputy director of the Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured and the director of State Health Reform at KFF.
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As of April, 745,771 enrollees renewed their coverage and 369,554 enrollees were disenrolled, including 47,968 who were determined ineligible and 321,586 who were disenrolled for procedural or administrative reasons, such as not turning in required paperwork on time.