MassHealth Termination Alert - MassHealth Renewal Extensions Available

Health-Law-Announcements

Alert to legal aid offices and social service providers about MassHealth terminations and the availability of MassHealth Renewal Extensions:

It is not too late for renewing MassHealth members who receive termination notices to reapply and reinstate their coverage back to the date it ended, and you can help

What happened?

Almost 300,000 MassHealth renewal notices were mailed in January and February giving 500,000 MassHealth members March deadlines to submit a reapplication in order to renew their MassHealth coverage. The last of the deadlines was March 29, 2015. Within a few days grace period from the deadlines, members whose reapplications were not submitted were mailed or will be mailed advance notices terminating their MassHealth coverage on one of three closing dates: March 31, 2015, April 11, 2015 or April 17, 2015. We don’t know how many people missed the March deadlines, but think it may be a lot.

What can you do?

MassHealth announced last week to people who have been trained & certified to help with enrollment (certified application counselors & navigators) the availability of a MassHealth Renewal Extension that will enable MassHealth members up for renewal & seeking enrollment assistance to have their benefits reinstated back to the date they closed, and to have their current benefits continue until June 30, 2015 or the date a decision is made on their reapplication whichever comes first.

€‹Please read the attached alert for more details on which MassHealth members were affected, and where to refer those affected for help completing an application and reinstating their benefits.