{"id":10138,"date":"2024-10-16T13:31:05","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T13:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/?p=10138"},"modified":"2024-10-16T13:31:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T13:31:45","slug":"excess-medicaid-losses-affected-23000-people-in-michigan-counties-with-larger-immigrant-populations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/16\/excess-medicaid-losses-affected-23000-people-in-michigan-counties-with-larger-immigrant-populations\/","title":{"rendered":"Excess Medicaid losses affected 23,000 people in Michigan counties with larger immigrant populations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>DETROIT, MI, October 8, 2024: A\u00a0new analysis<\/a>\u00a0released by the Protecting Immigrant Families (PIF)<\/em> coalition finds that state Medicaid eligibility policies and practices resulted in 22,935 people losing Medicaid in Michigan counties with larger immigrant shares of population, compared to counties with a lower share of immigrants. The analysis, completed for PIF by the non-profit behavioral science research firm\u00a0ideas42<\/a>, focuses on declines in Medicaid enrollment as states worked to \u201cunwind\u201d Medicaid\u2019s pandemic-era continuous coverage requirement.<\/p>\n

\u201cState and federal failures to lower the barriers facing immigrant families have denied more than a million people health care access under Medicaid,\u201d said PIF director Adriana Cadena. \u201cAnd because immigrant families are largely families of color, these failures are widening racial health disparities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The PIF\/ideas42 analysis compared state-published Medicaid enrollment data for counties with larger (as high as 36%) average immigrant shares of county population against disenrollments for counties with the smallest (averaging less than 4%) immigrant population shares. The analysis focused on states with relatively large immigrant shares of state population: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Texas. These 10 states include 50% of the total U.S. population and 68% of the foreign-born population. Most states were not included in the study because they did not report county-level data, so the nationwide impact is likely much greater than the 1.37 million people cited by the research.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis research reflects what we consistently hear from immigrant families,\u201d said Christine Sauv\u00e9, Policy and Communications Manager for the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center. \u201cForeign-born Michiganders encounter so many difficulties accessing benefits for which they are eligible, from lack of translation to fear of how it will affect their immigration status. We call on our state and federal government partners to take more proactive steps to ensure immigrant families aren\u2019t left behind.\u201d<\/p>\n

The research finds a correlation between state Medicaid disenrollment and immigrant share of county population. Counties with the \u201chighest\u201d immigrant shares of county population accounted for about half (617,520 or 45%) of additional Medicaid coverage losses. Counties with a \u201chigh\u201d immigrant share of county population accounted for an additional nearly 30% (383,119 or 28%).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe inequitable unwinding of Medicaid is apparent in the numbers, when over 22,000 individuals in Michigan alone lost Medicaid coverage, disproportionately impacting immigrant communities. It is not surprising to see the major impact that losing coverage has on these immigrant households, when they have to worry about meeting their basic needs,\u201d said Sara Ismail, State Policy Manager of the National Network for Arab American Communities (NNAAC).<\/p>\n

\u201cOur results indicate that high immigrant share communities have lost Medicaid coverage at substantially higher rates than counties with low immigrant shares. After an unprecedented increase in insurance coverage during the pandemic, more people today\u2014especially in immigrant communities\u2014face unnecessarily complex eligibility requirements and struggle to obtain and afford healthcare,\u201d said Jeremy Barofsky, who led the analysis as Director of Research and Evaluation at ideas42.<\/p>\n

The analysis also shows that Texas performed the worst at mitigating Medicaid coverage losses. In Texas, counties with the highest immigrant share had a drop in enrollment that was nearly five percentage points higher (totalling more than 460,000 people) than the counties with the lowest immigrant share. In California, this difference was only 2.5 percentage points.<\/p>\n

Before Medicaid unwinding began, PIF developed a set of\u00a0policy recommendations to mitigate known barriers<\/a>\u00a0to keeping eligible people in immigrant families covered.\u00a0Subsequent research<\/a>\u00a0by PIF and partner organizations found that states had largely failed to implement these best practices. PIF shared its findings with the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in November, urging CMS to require states to address performance shortfalls.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis research shows that states dropped the ball during Medicaid unwinding, costing more than a million people the health care every family needs,\u201d said Cadena. \u201cOur national and state leaders must not allow this abject failure to become the new normal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Immigrant families in Michigan who have questions about their rights can consult the\u00a0resources<\/a>\u00a0developed by the Protecting Immigrant Families (PIF) Michigan Campaign or call MIRC at (734) 239-6863.<\/p>\n

Michigan Immigrant Rights Center (MIRC)\u00a0<\/strong>is a statewide legal resource center for Michigan\u2019s immigrant communities that works to build a thriving Michigan where immigrant communities experience equity and belonging. MIRC’s work is rooted in three pillars: direct legal services, systemic advocacy, and community engagement and education.\u00a0michiganimmigrant.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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