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In Reversal, Counties and States Help Inmates Keep Medicaid [pewtrusts.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) · 1/9/206:54 PM

By Max Blau, Pew Stateline, January 8, 2020 More local and state officials are working to ensure that low-income residents stay on Medicaid when they go to jail. Federal law bars Medicaid recipients from accessing their full federal health benefits while incarcerated. But officials from both parties have pushed for two key changes to ensure little or no disruption of health benefits for pretrial detainees who have not been convicted of a crime and make up most of the 612,000 people held in...

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