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North Carolina Children at Risk of Losing Health Coverage

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Right now, many North Carolina Medicaid participants are up for redetermination - and experts are concerned about the number of North Carolina children who are losing their health coverage.

Experts believe that children are most at risk of losing coverage during the unwinding, despite being eligible.

Adam Searing - a research professor at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy Center for Children and Families - said one reason could be that parents are mistaking their own ineligibility for that of their entire families.

"Children are eligible for either the Children's Health Insurance Program or for Medicaid, usually up to a much higher income level than parents," said Searing. "So, while parents may lose their coverage, they certainly shouldn't think that their children are going to lose their coverage or that their children are even going to have to change their coverage."

Regardless of the reason, experts say every day more children are at risk becoming more uninsured.

According to the Georgetown Center for Children and Families - approximately 24,000 children have lost coverage, as of August.

This year for some children who will need medical care, they may not know that they don't have coverage until they go to the doctor.

Searing said one big way to make sure that doesn't happen, is by making sure your information is up to date and looking out from communication from the state.

"The main message really," said Searing, "is parents really need to keep a close eye on what they're - to make sure they're getting all the communications about what's going on from Medicaid especially."

According to data from KFF, some kids are also being kicked off of Medicaid rolls due to simple errors. Nationwide, nearly 800,000 children have lost coverage during the unwinding.




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