Politico
By Brett Norman
August 12, 2014
The
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is sending letters this
week to 310,000 people whose citizenship or immigration status is in
question, saying they must send
documents by Sept. 5 or they will lose their coverage at the end of
that month.
The
individuals receiving those warning notices are a portion of the almost
1 million people with citizenship or immigration “data-matching” errors
that CMS has been working
to resolve since May, according to a release Tuesday.
The agency said it has closed 450,000 cases to date and has an additional 210,000 “in progress.”
The
letters are being sent in English and Spanish to people who have not
responded after multiple efforts to contact them by mail, phone and
email, officials said. CMS
will try three more times to contact them before the Sept. 5 deadline;
after that, another letter will be sent saying that coverage will be
canceled Sept. 30.
Agency
spokesman Aaron Albright said CMS had closed some cases because the
agency had received the information needed to confirm citizenship or
immigration status. No
one has yet lost coverage because of these documentation issues, he
said.
CMS
will contact consumers about inconsistencies in household income, on
which premium subsidies are based. CMS would not say how many of those
cases are outstanding.
The
CMS push to verify information involves only those who enrolled through
the federal HealthCare.gov marketplace. States that built their own
exchanges are clearing
up other application data issues themselves.
CMS
published a map showing where these final warning notices are being
sent. Nearly 94,000 are going to Florida, more than any other state. The
Dakotas and Wyoming will
receive the fewest: 300 each.
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