TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Azya Thornton on Feb 3, 2026

Thousands of legal immigrants will lose access to TennCare beginning in October under a new Trump administration policy, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reports. Tennessee officials also separately are considering barring pregnant women without legal immigration status from publicly funded prenatal care, the paper reports. The director of TennCare told lawmakers last month that about 8,500 refugees and asylum-seekers would be removed from the state’s Medicaid program beginning Oct. 1. The changes stem from federal policy provisions included in a federal bill signed into law last year. State officials also are reviewing whether Tennessee’s Child Health Insurance Program could exclude pregnant women without legal status from receiving prenatal care.