State Timelines for Initiating Unwinding-Related Renewals
CMS posted the anticipated state timelines for initiating unwinding-related renewals as of February 24, 2023. This chart details the expected first month for each state/territory's unwinding-related renewals, as well as the anticipated effective date for the first procedural terminations. Below are the state timelines for the USET region.
State
(USET member Tribal Nations)
Alabama
Connecticut
Florida
Louisiana
Maine
Massachusetts
Mississippi
New York
North Carolina
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Texas
Virginia
First Month Unwinding-Related Renewals are Initiated
April
March
March
April
April
April
March
March
April
April
February
April
March
Effective Date of First Anticipated Terminations for Procedural Reasons*
June
May
May
July
June
June
June
July
July
June
April
June
May
*This is generally the first month that members who have not had their eligibility successfully renewed in the past 12 months may be disenrolled for procedural reasons, such as non-response to a renewal form, per CMS guidelines. Terminations for individuals the state has redetermined as ineligible for Medicaid and CHIP may occur on or after April 1, 2023.
Resources
- TSGAC Brief Summary of Medicaid Unwinding Survey (December 2023)
- Presentation from June 2023 Tribal Self-Governance Conference
- Fact Sheet: COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Transition Roadmap
- Medicaid.gov/unwinding
- CMS’s Medicaid Unwinding Toolkit
- NIHB’s Unwinding landing page/toolkit
- CMS’s National Stakeholder Call page (includes recordings of all the past webinars on unwinding)
- Georgetown University's Center for Children and Families 50-State Unwinding Tracker