Twenty-five governors signed a letter to President Joe Biden asking him to end the federal public health emergency in April, saying Medicaid costs are costing their states millions.
States received more money for Medicaid during the PHE but cannot remove anyone from the program’s rolls until either one month before the PHE ends, the month it ends or the month after it ends, according to Medicaid.gov.
Biden extended the PHE to January and has not indicated when it will end. The governors said they assume the PHE will continue at least until April.
The governors asked Biden for an indication as to when he would end the PHE. Twenty million people have joined the Medicaid program since the PHE began nearly three years ago, and the states are faced with additional costs, they said.
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