This was the year that enrollment and costs were supposed to fall for Virginia’s Medicaid program with the end of the COVID-19 pandemic and federal health emergency funding that had sustained the state’s public health care lifeline for low-income, disabled and elderly Virginians.
It hasn’t worked out that way.
Instead, Medicaid enrollment has not declined as expected, especially for children, and that is putting additional pressure on the state budget as the General Assembly works to adopt a revised spending plan for this year and a new one for the next two years before its scheduled adjournment on Saturday.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
