Will I still get my surgery free of charge if I lose my health insurance?

So, I recently had a surgery approved by my health insurance (United Healthcare Community Plan) on May 25th. Though I don’t have a date set yet, the surgery was approved between a specific time window with the expected dates of service being from 5/19 to 8/19. I might be losing my health insurance soon and I was wondering what would happen if I did. I get health insurance (UnitedHealthcare Community Plan) through my state (NJ FamilyCare). My coworker, who also gets Medicaid from the state, said they received a renewal packet for their health insurance and the deadline to send it in was in May. I did not receive a renewal packet, and although I don’t make enough money to be kicked off of Medicaid, I did not send in a renewal packet so my insurance wouldn’t know that. Since my surgery has already been approved for the certain window of dates, would I still be able to get the surgery even if my health insurance ended? Sorry if it’s a dumb question, but I’m 20 years old and haven’t dealt with health insurance to this extent before so I’m a little nervous. I don’t have money to pay for the surgery out of pocket, so any insight on this particular situation would be helpful.

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