diff --git a/node/pod.go b/node/pod.go
index 49d17a0b1..5ff6ac867 100644
--- a/node/pod.go
+++ b/node/pod.go
@@ -214,11 +214,15 @@ func (pc *PodController) updatePodStatus(ctx context.Context, podFromKubernetes
 	}
 	kPod := obj.(*knownPod)
 	kPod.Lock()
+
 	podFromProvider := kPod.lastPodStatusReceivedFromProvider.DeepCopy()
-	kPod.Unlock()
 	if cmp.Equal(podFromKubernetes.Status, podFromProvider.Status) && podFromProvider.DeletionTimestamp == nil {
+		kPod.lastPodStatusUpdateSkipped = true
+		kPod.Unlock()
 		return nil
 	}
+	kPod.lastPodStatusUpdateSkipped = false
+	kPod.Unlock()
 	// Pod deleted by provider due some reasons. e.g. a K8s provider, pod created by deployment would be evicted when node is not ready.
 	// If we do not delete pod in K8s, deployment would not create a new one.
 	if podFromProvider.DeletionTimestamp != nil && podFromKubernetes.DeletionTimestamp == nil {
diff --git a/node/podcontroller.go b/node/podcontroller.go
index 490b4fbf6..3bf0046bf 100644
--- a/node/podcontroller.go
+++ b/node/podcontroller.go
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ type knownPod struct {
 	sync.Mutex
 	lastPodStatusReceivedFromProvider *corev1.Pod
 	lastPodUsed                       *corev1.Pod
+	lastPodStatusUpdateSkipped        bool
 }
 
 // PodControllerConfig is used to configure a new PodController.
@@ -303,9 +304,30 @@ func (pc *PodController) Run(ctx context.Context, podSyncWorkers int) (retErr er
 			// At this point we know that something in .metadata or .spec has changed, so we must proceed to sync the pod.
 			if key, err := cache.MetaNamespaceKeyFunc(newPod); err != nil {
 				log.G(ctx).Error(err)
-			} else if podShouldEnqueue(oldPod, newPod) {
-				pc.k8sQ.AddRateLimited(key)
+			} else {
+				obj, ok := pc.knownPods.Load(key)
+				if !ok {
+					// Pods are only ever *added* to knownPods in the above AddFunc, and removed
+					// in the below *DeleteFunc*
+					panic("Pod not found in known pods. This should never happen.")
+				}
 
+				kPod := obj.(*knownPod)
+				kPod.Lock()
+				if kPod.lastPodStatusUpdateSkipped && !cmp.Equal(newPod.Status, kPod.lastPodStatusReceivedFromProvider.Status) {
+					// The last pod from the provider -> kube api server was skipped, but we see they no longer match.
+					// This means that the pod in API server was changed by someone else [this can be okay], but we skipped
+					// a status update on our side because we compared the status received from the provider to the status
+					// received from the k8s api server based on outdated information.
+					pc.podStatusQ.AddRateLimited(key)
+					// Reset this to avoid re-adding it continuously
+					kPod.lastPodStatusUpdateSkipped = false
+				}
+				kPod.Unlock()
+
+				if podShouldEnqueue(oldPod, newPod) {
+					pc.k8sQ.AddRateLimited(key)
+				}
 			}
 		},
 		DeleteFunc: func(pod interface{}) {
@@ -472,6 +494,7 @@ func (pc *PodController) syncHandler(ctx context.Context, key string) error {
 		return err
 
 	}
+
 	// At this point we know the Pod resource has either been created or updated (which includes being marked for deletion).
 	return pc.syncPodInProvider(ctx, pod, key)
 }