Disabled Patients Face Medicaid Denials as IT Errors Mount Under Trump-Era Law Changes

3 articles · Updated · tippahnews.com · Jul 20

KFF Health News found disabled patients were wrongly denied Medicaid benefits after failures in the computer systems used to determine eligibility and coverage.
Those systems already had a history of errors and are now being strained by updates required to comply with a Trump-era tax and domestic policy law.
The report documented the toll on beneficiaries, including one disabled patient who said the repeated denials left them feeling they "just wanted to give up."

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When technology denies care to the disabled, who is truly accountable for the widespread Medicaid failures?

Are new bureaucratic hurdles designing the healthcare safety net to fail its most vulnerable citizens?

How can doctors protect patients when new rules force them to become healthcare gatekeepers?