Texas Medicaid drops 82% of its enrollees since April

As many as 24 million people across the U.S. are expected to lose Medicaid coverage over the next year, according to estimates by the health policy research organization KFF. (Getty Images)

For three years during the COVID-19 pandemic, people did not have to go through any kind of renewal process to stay on Medicaid.

That changed in April, and now every state is winnowing its rolls — some much more quickly than others. Texas reported disenrolling 82% of its Medicaid recipients, while Wyoming shed just 8% of its rolls, according to an analysis by KFF, a health policy research organization.