With the recent announcement that CMS will not renew state programs to promote multiyear, continuous Medicaid eligibility through 1115 waivers, Pennsylvania will continue enrollment as normal. The waiver would have allowed states to expand continuous eligibility to additional populations, as well as to increase the length of time that individuals could stay enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP, regardless of changes in circumstance that would have made an individual otherwise ineligible for continued Medicaid or CHIP eligibility. The new CMS policy will revert to the statutory minimum of 12 months of continuous eligibility for children and post-partum coverage for all states. While a waiver for Pennsylvania was approved this past November, the Department of Human Services did not put it into effect.
