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Allie Corcoran

Alexandra Corcoran is a Research Associate at the Georgetown Center for Children and Families. Prior to joining CCF in a full-time capacity, Alexandra interned with the Center for two consecutive summers and developed an interest in Medicaid 1115 waivers, enrollment procedures, and administrative burden. Alexandra earned her MA in Philosophy and Public Affairs on a Fulbright Scholarship at University College Dublin. She graduated from Haverford College with a degree in Political Science and Spanish. Her thesis, entitled, “Mobilizing Medicaid: Understanding Advocacy Group Action at the State Level,” focused on how and when advocacy organizations and legal aid groups organize beneficiaries in response to administrative retrenchment of Medicaid benefits. It received the Herman H. Somers Prize in Political Science.

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Medicaid Managed Care: 2020 Results for the “Big Five”

Corporate earnings statements for 2020 are now out. It was a very good year for the five largest health care companies in the Medicaid managed care market: Aetna/CVS Health; Anthem; Centene; Molina; and UnitedHealthcare. Each company experienced an increase in Medicaid enrollment between December 2019 and December 2020; in total, their Medicaid enrollment grew by […]

Report Finds Medicaid Expansion Associated with Lower Child Uninsured Rates

Introduction Since its passage in 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has played a critical role in lowering the rate of uninsured children in America. A key part of the ACA’s success in this area was the Act’s expansion of Medicaid to more working-age adults. In 2016, just two years after the majority of states […]

Child Medicaid Enrollment Grew by 10% during the Pandemic in 2020    

The chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, recently explained  that the official unemployment statistics are too low, and that unemployment was closer to 10% in January. With the pandemic still raging and economic conditions looking very troubling, Congress is considering a COVID relief package with some important Medicaid provisions – my colleague Edwin Park […]

Medicaid Managed Care Transparency: Advocacy Around External Quality Review Reports

As anyone who cares about children’s health knows, it is important to know how Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) are performing for the children enrolled in their plans. Access to quality data on a plan-specific basis is a vital part of determining which plans are doing the job well and which plans are falling short. […]