Nashville, Tennessee (WKRN) — While COVID-19 has created challenges for people across the country, one of its benefits is that several federal initiatives are helping Americans without health insurance is that the proportion of has decreased by millions.
“Congress has taken the first steps to allow people on Medicaid to continue with the program as long as the public health emergency remains,” said Gordon Bonnieman, an attorney with the Tennessee Judiciary Center. I was.
But soon, the federal public health emergency could end. It is currently set to expire in October unless extended by a vote in Congress. That means hundreds of thousands of people in Tennessee are expected to lose their health care.
“The state plans to reduce the number of participants in the program by about 300,000 over the next 12 months,” Bonnieman said.
On Friday, Tennessee’s Medicaid program, TennCare, announced it was planning a rollback program, up from about 1.7 million people in the program to about 1.4 million people. Rewinding takes place in Phase 3, one of which relies on his TennCare recipients receiving the letter via email (Phase 3).
I have only one problem. The Tennessee Judiciary Center is currently filing a class action lawsuit against TennCare. The lawsuit, centered around the Center, alleges that TennCare is sending emails to the wrong address and requesting unnecessary information.
“When we received requests from states to determine if people were still eligible, many of them were sent to the wrong address,” Bonnieman said. You were blocked because you didn’t respond to a missing packet.”
News 2 reached out to TennCare to ask a little more about their unwinding program and litigation. First, make sure your address is up to date so your documents can be sent to the correct location. Second, TennCare recommends signing up for an online account. This will allow us to electronically verify some of your entitlements.
