Medicaid Program Improvement Act
Key claim: The Medicaid Program Improvement Act would give statutory authority requiring state Medicaid and CHIP programs to maintain processes for obtaining updated enrollee addresses and require contracted managed care plans to report enrollee-verified addresses to states.
Abstract
(HR1019 · 119th Congress) Medicaid Program Improvement Act This bill provides statutory authority for the requirement that state Medicaid programs and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) have a process in place to obtain updated addresses for enrollees. It also requires contracted managed care plans to report addresses that have been directly verified by enrollees to states. Latest action (2025-02-05): Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Why this matters
Accurate enrollee addresses are foundational to Medicaid and CHIP renewal notices, managed care assignments, and continuity of coverage—issues that became prominent during the post-PHE unwinding when procedural disenrollments spiked. Codifying address-update processes and requiring managed care plans to report verified addresses would lock in current administrative practice at the statute level, reducing coverage losses tied to returned mail without changing eligibility or benefits.