Contrary to Rumors, Pennsylvania Is Not Pausing Medicaid Unwinding

There have been some confusing reports around Pennsylvania’s Medicaid unwinding process and the Department of Human Services (DHS) requests your help in correcting misunderstandings, particularly that DHS is pausing its Medicaid unwinding process. Pennsylvania is not pausing redeterminations. DHS is operating under an approved mitigation strategy to manually address a known issue with the ex parte review process which is the highest priority right now.