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Short deadline on new, suddenly released Medicaid paperwork causes some to lose coverage, newspaper reports

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Top portion of new paperwork, released with a short deadline in August by the Minnesota Department of Human Services, that some Medicaid recipients didn't return in time to continue to receive benefits | edocs.dhs.state.mn.us

Top portion of new paperwork, released with a short deadline in August by the Minnesota Department of Human Services, that some Medicaid recipients didn't return in time to continue to receive benefits | edocs.dhs.state.mn.us

New paperwork implemented last summer that was intended to fight Medicaid fraud and waste has left hundreds of Minnesotans without health-care coverage, a Minneapolis-based newspaper reported in October.

The paperwork, a two-page form intended to ensure that health-care recipients' assets don't exceed eligibility limits, was introduced by the the Minnesota Department of Human Services for Medicaid recipients in August, the Star Tribune reported Oct. 24.

DHS allowed a 10-day grace period for the new form, which many Medicaid recipients missed and were subsequently "disenrolled" from the federally funded program that provides health-care coverage to the nation's most vulnerable.

"Advocacy groups for people with mental illness said the state should have publicized the new asset-verification policy much earlier and given people more time to submit the forms before terminating coverage," the news report said. "Some people only discovered the new requirements after they arrived at a pharmacy or a clinic and were told they had been dropped from Medicaid coverage."

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