(Jan. 29, 2026) – Today, the House Welfare Reform Committee heard from Medicaid Director Christine Osterlund to discuss Medicaid data checks. She highlighted the following topics:
- Existing Medicaid Data Matching Summaries
- The process if data matches are unsuccessful
- Limitations to requesting additional data from federal requirements
- The back-up processes
- Income eligibility verification processes
- Multi-state enrollment and the Gainwell Pilot Project
- Disenrollment numbers
- Eligibility Quality Control
- Payment Error Rates
The committee asked questions about the processes.