Missouri still processing Medicaid applications from HealthCare.gov

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Source: STL Post-Dispatch

JEFFERSON CITY • With just one month remaining until enrollment for 2015 opens on HealthCare.gov, the state of Missouri is still processing thousands of Medicaid applications left over from last year.

Officials with the Missouri Department of Social Services said in an oversight hearing Tuesday that staffers are very close to processing the remaining 2,853 Medicaid applications from the federally facilitated online health insurance marketplace.

In all, the department received 55,665 Medicaid applications from last year’s open enrollment period, which the department began receiving from the federal government in February 2014.

Most of the applicants for Medicaid were ultimately deemed ineligible. Missouri officials say the federal government did not automatically kick out these ineligible applications and instead sent them to the state, which helped create a backlog.

Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/missouri-still-processing-medicaid-applications-from-healthcare-gov/article_bb172e79-00e8-5125-9b7a-893315b5ccd8.html

[jwirr]

1. So is MO the only state with this problem? MN seems to be doing just fine.