State of Minnesota asked 45,000 to reapply for health coverage
Letters sent in mid-August described a "system problem" that prevented state officials from determining if the enrollees were eligible for benefits in either the MinnesotaCare or Medical Assistance programs.
Those enrollees were given until
"People who have not yet reapplied can do so at any time," the
Medical Assistance is the name in
The mismatches involve data in the MNsure/
The computer systems should automatically sync with one another, but that wasn't happening in all cases, said
In the process, the state learned of the data mismatches, and is now concluding the process of cleaning up those cases.
As of August, about 650,000 people with public health insurance coverage had their cases managed via the MNsure/
An audit report in January found that eligibility errors related to the MNsure/
"It's really just a system disconnect between the eligibility record and the payment record that we need to get realigned in order to ensure that we're managing the program properly," Johnson said in an interview.
On Thursday,
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