Medicaid redetermination cost community health centers an average of $600K each
It’s been a year since states began the process of Medicaid redetermination, going through their Medicaid rolls that had been frozen through the Covid-19 emergency period. According to data from KFF, about 21% of the people who were enrolled prior to the redetermination, or close to 20 million, lost coverage, while 45%, or 42 million, were confirmed. For the remaining 31 million people, renewal of coverage is still pending.
Beyond the impact on individual patients, the redetermination had a sizable impact on community health centers, which serve about 15% of all Medicaid patients. New data shared by the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), which surveyed about 200 community centers around the country, serving an average 22,000 patients, show that centers, on average, lost 23% of their Medicaid patients due to redetermination, leading to substantial loss of revenue — an average of $600,000 per health center
