Feds signal alarm over Montana’s drop in childhood Medicaid coverage

This story is excerpted from the MT Lowdown, a weekly newsletter digest containing original reporting and analysis published every Friday. The federal government’s top health official said this week that he is “deeply alarmed” by a recent drop in the number of Montana children who are covered by Medicaid. The Biden administration urged the state health department to do more to ensure that eligible youth keep their health insurance as it conducts its first review of Medicaid rolls since states were prohibited from removing participants during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a letter dated