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  • Uninsured Rate for Young Children Rose More Sharply than for Older Children from 2022-2024

    Elisabeth Wright Burak

    Key Findings The number of infants, toddlers and preschoolers who are uninsured is at the highest level in nearly a decade and is increasing more sharply than for older children. The number of uninsured children under age 6 grew by 23% between 2022 and 2024, while the number of uninsured school-aged children grew by 17%. The charts and appendix…

  • Tracking Georgia Implementation of H.R. 1 Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements

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    Medicaid Enrollment Trends The CCF Enrollment Tracker uses the most recent monthly administrative data from state websites and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). State administrative data is often the quickest way to assess what is happening in a state’s Medicaid program.  Georgia operates “Pathways to Coverage” program, a partial Medicaid expansion that…

  • Is Your State Leaving Money on the Table? How CHIP Health Service Initiatives Can Help States Support Children’s Access to Care

    Tricia Brooks

    At a time when states are facing growing fiscal pressures and increasing strain on health systems, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Health Services Initiatives (HSIs) represent an often overlooked source of federal funding offering flexible financing to support outreach and targeted health initiatives to improve children’s health. This source of federally-matched funding becomes increasingly…

  • State by State Medicaid and CHIP Enrollment Data

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    This tracker shows enrollment data for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in all 50 states and DC, from January 2025 to the most recent month available. Data include total Medicaid/CHIP enrollment, as well as enrollment for children, adults, and Medicaid expansion. Historical data are also included to provide additional context for state…

  • CMS’s Georgia Waiver Extension Underscores the Failure of Medicaid Work Requirements

    Joan Alker

    As regular readers of SayAhhh! know, on January 1, 2027, 42 states and DC will be required by HR 1 to impose work reporting requirements on many adults covered by Medicaid. The only state in the country that is currently implementing work reporting requirements is Georgia through a Section 1115 demonstration — officially known as…

  • Medicaid/CHIP Coverage in Georgia School Districts, 2020-2024

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  • Medicaid Coverage in Georgia Counties, 2023

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  • Medicaid’s Role in Small Towns and Rural Areas

    Joan Alker

    Key Findings Background One-fifth of people in the United States live in areas that are classified as non-urban. Residents of rural areas and small towns face additional challenges accessing needed health services compared to residents of metro areas for a variety of reasons including acute provider shortages, limited connectivity, and long distances to travel to…

  • Medicaid Coverage in Metro and Small Town/Rural Counties in Georgia, 2023

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  • Medicaid Managed Care and Early Childhood Development: A 12-state Scan

    Andy Schneider

    Summary and Key Findings The first five years of a child’s life are a period of rapid growth and development.  During this time, frequent check-ups are essential to monitor a child’s progress so that if a problem is identified an intervention can occur before things get worse.  Medicaid, a primary source of health care coverage…

  • Medicaid/CHIP Coverage in Georgia Congressional Districts, 2023

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    [Note: data reflect boundaries in effect for the 118th Congress. Districts in Georgia were redrawn for the 119th Congress but are not depicted below.]

  • Update: Georgia Now Suing CMS For Denying an Extension Request That Hasn’t Really Even Been Filed

    Cathy Hope

    As we have recently covered, and as we explained before it launched, Georgia’s “Pathways to Coverage” demonstration is riddled with defects. Pathways is the state’s alternative to a standard Medicaid expansion—an expansion with work requirements that has resulted in Georgia enrolling (as best we can tell) less than one percent of those eligible (yes, that’s…

  • Medicaid Expansion in Georgia would Improve Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes

    Hannah Green

     One in ten Georgians report knowing someone who has died through pregnancy-related causes. An estimated 57% of Georgians have experienced or know someone who has experienced maternal morbidity. Over 70% of Georgians believe that prioritizing improvements in access to health insurance coverage would help to reduce maternal mortality. These statistics were shared at the…

  • CMS Unsurprisingly Concludes Georgia Demonstration Extension Request Is… An Extension Request

    Hannah Green

    On December 22, CMS sent Georgia a letter confirming that the state’s section 1115 demonstration extension request was being reviewed as an extension request. This straightforward conclusion, which the state was trying to avoid, has some important consequences for the state’s on-going Medicaid expansion debacle. But let’s start with the background. In February 2023, Georgia…

  • Georgia Pathways Implementation: The Glass is 99.6% Empty

    Cathy Hope

    On October 5, 2023, CMS certified as complete Georgia’s implementation plan (the implementation plan itself starts on page 50) for phase one of its “Pathways to Coverage” section 1115 demonstration that the state had already started implementing more than 3 months earlier, on July 1, 2023. Yes, you read that right. And no, it doesn’t…

  • Medicaid Managed Care, Maternal Mortality Review Committees, and Maternal Health: A 12-State Scan

    Ella Mathews

    Download the Full Report Introduction The United States is in the midst of an ongoing maternal mortality crisis and Medicaid, the health insurer for low-income Americans, has an important role to play in addressing it. Medicaid is the nation’s single largest maternity care insurer, paying for more than 40% of all births on average across all states,…

  • State Medicaid and CHIP Snapshots, 2023

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    The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families (CCF) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) created factsheets underscoring the importance of Medicaid in providing coverage for children in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Sources available here. Previous snapshots can be found here (2019), here (2018) and here (2017).  Check out more interactive…

  • Georgetown CCF Analysis Finds Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage Program Would Cost More to Cover Fewer People

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    This week, we released a new analysis, written by Allexa Gardner, Joan Alker and Leo Cuello, that finds Georgia’s limited Medicaid expansion program, known as “Pathways,” is fiscally foolish and sets up a structure that discriminates against parents. Enrollment for Pathways begins on July 1st with coverage being at a later date likely September 1.…

  • An Analysis of Georgia’s Section 1115 Medicaid Pathways to Coverage Program

    Allexa Gardner

    Download Full Report In July 2023, Georgia will begin enrollment into its new Medicaid Pathways to Coverage (“Pathways”) program, with coverage expected to begin in September 2023. The program would offer coverage to a subset of low-income adults who meet a work reporting requirement and, depending on their income, pay a monthly premium. Georgia will…

  • Gracias a las leyes federales, hay menos niños sin seguro medico en Georgia, pero eso podría cambiar pronto

    Joan Alker

    Georgia ocupa el cuarto lugar entre los estados con el peor número de niños sin seguro médico, con un estimado de 176,000 niños sin cobertura de salud. Comparado con los estados vecinos del sur, Georgia tiene un desempeño insatisfactorio. La tasa de niños sin seguro en todos los estados vecinos—con excepción de la Florida—es mucho…