Medicaid
has transformed health care for low-income families and individuals, especially children, pregnant mothers, parents and children with disabilities and special health care needs.
Medicaid and CHIP Provisions in Biden Administration’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget
On March 11, the Biden Administration issued its budget plan for fiscal year 2025. Based on budget documents from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), here’s a brief summary of the budget’s major provisions related to Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), along […]
Surveys Show Unwinding Awareness Lags, Highlighting Need for Outreach
If you know Medicaid, you know that everything is not fine right now. The unwinding of the pandemic continuous coverage provision continues to have major effects on enrollment, with the net decline in child enrollment now exceeding 4 million. Administrative data from across the country show that 73.2% of people who are losing coverage are […]
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 […]
CMS Releases Updated Medicaid & CHIP Telehealth Toolkit, Includes State Best Practices and Behavioral Health Strategies
This month, CMS released an updated State Medicaid and CHIP Telehealth Toolkit consolidating information from previous toolkits and providing additional guidance – as required by the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act – on issues from billing best practices to strategies for using telehealth in schools. In addition to FAQs on issues such as benefit flexibility, financing, […]
If You Love Children, You Should Love these Medicaid/CHIP Policy Changes in 2024
Before the new year slips from memory, I wanted to take stock of a few good things happening for kids covered by Medicaid and CHIP this year. Amidst all the dismal news about how nearly 4 million children have lost their coverage during the unwinding – many remain eligible but lost coverage due to red […]