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Survey Looks at Medicaid Unwinding Experiences for Spanish Speakers
By Melody Emenyonu, CCF communications intern, and Kelly Whitener The Protecting Immigrant Families recently partnered with UnidosUS and Noticias Para Inmigrantes to conduct a survey focused on Spanish-speaking adults and their experiences with Medicaid unwinding and the re-enrollment process. All 2,125 participants of the survey had at least one member of their family enrolled in […]
New Resource: WIC Can Help Medicaid Improve the Health of Pregnant and Postpartum People, Infants, and Young Children
By: Elisabeth Wright Burak, Sonya Schwartz, Zoë Neuberger, Jennifer Sullivan, Lauren Hall Child health leaders are no strangers to the benefits of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, known as WIC. For 50 years, WIC has offered food, nutrition and breastfeeding support, and provided connections to health care and social services […]
A Lifeline for Families of Children With Special Health Care Needs
By Gabby Benitez, Kristen Golden Testa and Nick Lutton Nine months after the start of a national effort to renew Americans’ Medicaid coverage, a tidal wave of people, including almost 200,000 children in California from June through October last year, lost their coverage – and an untold number may be joining them. Most disturbingly, this […]
New Report Outlines Opportunities for States to Leverage Medicaid to Improve Mental Health of Postpartum Moms and Babies
By: Anne Dwyer, Elisabeth Burak, Tanesha Mondestin, and Kay Johnson As we recognize Maternal Health Awareness Day, it’s a good time to take stock of where the U.S. stands in advancing maternal and child health. The relatively new state option to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage from 60 days to one full year provides states with […]
State Medicaid Opportunities to Support Mental Health of Mothers and Babies During the 12-Month Postpartum Period
Download Full Report (PDF) By: Elisabeth Burak, Anne Dwyer, Tanesha Mondestin, and Kay Johnson Most states have moved to adopt a new state option to extend Medicaid coverage to all enrolled pregnant people from 60 days to 12 months following a pregnancy. As the predominant payor of U.S. births and health care to postpartum people […]