EXHIBIT 2.

Innovative Practices Adopted By Sixty-One Programs Enrolling Criminal Justice–Involved Individuals In Medicaid

Practice	Description	All programs		State-level programs		County-level programs
		No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Suspension of benefits	Program temporarily suspends, rather than terminates, existing Medicaid benefits upon incarceration	40	66	8	50	32	71
Presumptive eligibility	Program assumes Medicaid eligibility upon release and bills Medicaid for recently released inmates’ health services or prescriptions before application is completely processed	12	20	5	31	7	16
Authorizing enrollment during incarceration	Medicaid applications are submitted and processed before the release of an inmate	49	80	14	88	39	87
Alternative forms of identification	Alternative forms of identification and proof of income (such as corrections identification and jail release letter) are accepted	44	72	11	69	33	73

SOURCE Authors’ analysis of survey response data provided by programs in the inventory.