The new year is an obvious time to make changes if that’s what you’re going to do and it might seem that if things are going to be different for Medicaid beneficiaries now would be the time to learn what’s new. Oddly enough, even though there are changes afoot, nothing is scheduled to happen right away.
The first new rules won’t come into play until October this year, and they’ll affect certain non-citizens. Trump’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill of last year decreed that asylees and refugees are to be no longer eligible for Medicaid. Permanent Residents who meet the five-year residency ruling won’t be affected, nor will Cuban and Haitian non-citizens.
The other new rule that was passed back in July will only start being enforced in January next year. It will be then that non-disabled adults aged 19 to 64 in order to maintain their coverage will have to go through the bureaucratic loop of establishing that they are meeting a work requirement in. That’s something we’ll cover closer to the time.
Meanwhile, although there’s a looming uncertainty, it’s business as usual.
For more reading on the changes you can go here: Pages – changes