CMS seeks state compliance verifying Medicaid enrollees’ citizenship, immigration status

Fierce Healthcare – Tuesday, August 19, 2025
By Noah Tong

The federal government is continuing efforts to strengthen Medicaid program integrity, announcing Tuesday the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin providing states new eligibility information.

Starting today, the agency will send monthly enrollment reports containing lists of people with unconfirmed citizenship and immigration status, the agency said in a news release. These individuals were not found in other federal databases such as the Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program.

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