Wisconsin is checking if you still qualify for BadgerCare Plus. Here's how to keep your health coverage

Over the next year, Wisconsin residents enrolled in BadgerCare Plus or another Medicaid program will have to renew their coverage for the first time in over three years.

It is a massive undertaking — known as Medicaid "unwinding" — that could result in an estimated 300,000 Wisconsinites losing Medicaid coverage. Many of those people will have health coverage through their employer, but others could lose coverage simply because they didn't renew in time, even though they still qualify for BadgerCare Plus or another Medicaid program.

A December report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute estimated that about 49,000 Wisconsinites who lose Medicaid coverage will become uninsured over the next year….