Montana data shows 44% who lost coverage in Medicaid unwinding were kids

Nearly half of the roughly 55,000 Montanans who lost Medicaid coverage through the disenrollment process between April and August were children, according to new data provided to a legislative committee by the Department of Public Health and Human Services.

In response to questions from the Health and Human Services Interim Budget Committee, DPHHS provided a dataset showing how many children lost coverage in the ongoing disenrollment process, where they lived, and a breakdown of the number of people in different age groups that lost coverage...