About 115,000 people will lose their PPACA coverage this month if they don't submit their paperwork to show proof of citizenship or legal residency, the Obama administration again warned this week.
It's the latest such alert from the administration, which said it's made repeated attempts to reach consumers who failed to show valid proof of citizenship or legal residency for the insurance plans they bought through HealthCare.gov. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said they mailed out letters again to residents to notify them of the needed validation.
Of the 115,000 individuals, more than 35,000 live in Florida.
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The agency said it will contact insurers and tell them to terminate the coverage at the end of the month for those who have submitted proper documentation. But they also said that those with terminated coverage can also apply to re-enroll at any point after they submit the necessary documents.
The administration also said it is warning another 336,000 people they need to provide proof of income by Sept. 30, or risk losing those federal subsidies that reduce what they pay in monthly insurance premiums.
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"We are committed to keeping coverage affordable for the millions of Americans who depend on it, and to doing so in an efficient, transparent way that protects taxpayers," CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner said in a statement. "It's critically important that consumers who still owe income-related documents to the Marketplace send them in by September 30 so we can continue to hold down their costs. We are pleased that the number of individuals who were at risk of losing their Marketplace coverage, or seeing changes in their costs because of data matching issues has been dramatically reduced in the last three months."
Though the agency said it's made considerable progress in resolving data discrepancies — as of Sept. 14, approximately 467,000 household income data-matching issues have been closed and an additional 430,000 are currently in the process of being resolved — there is still more work to be done.
CMS said there are still about 279,000 households with unresolved income-related data-matching issues that haven't sent in supporting information, representing 363,000 individuals.
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