{"id":615025,"date":"2023-02-01T14:36:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T14:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=615025"},"modified":"2023-02-01T15:07:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T15:07:46","slug":"medicaid-in-sc-added-300k-people-during-covid-pandemic-many-could-lose-benefits-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/medicaid-in-sc-added-300k-people-during-covid-pandemic-many-could-lose-benefits-this-year","title":{"rendered":"Medicaid in SC added 300K people during COVID pandemic. Many could lose benefits this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 300,000 South Carolina Medicaid recipients could lose their health coverage over the next year as the the state agency that administers Medicaid begins reviewing recipients&#8217; eligibility. South Carolina Health and Human Services in April will be required to restart annual eligibility reviews to make sure people on Medicaid qualify for the health insurance benefit. This is the latest move as the country moves on from COVID-era restrictions and assistance. President Joe Biden on Monday announced the federal COVID-19 public health emergency also would come to an end in May. The Families First Coronavirus Response Act , passed in early 2020, provided additional federal money for Medicaid to help states cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID package also prevented states from removing someone from Medicaid, a health insurance program run by states for low-income people, children, pregnant women, elderly adults and people with disabilities. It&#8217;s run by states but jointly paid for by state and federal governments. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the pandemic, about 1 million South Carolinians were on Medicaid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}