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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: The Big Five in PHE Q9 (Q1 2022)

March 31 marked the end of the ninth quarter of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE). First declared by the Secretary of HHS on January 31, 2020, the PHE has subsequently been extended nine times, through July 15. As long as the PHE is in place, states qualify for an additional 6.2 percentage points on […]

Medicaid Managed Care: SDOH, MCO, and MLR

There is no shortage of acronyms or initialisms in government agencies and programs and Medicaid is no exception. The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission or MACPAC (one of our favorite acronyms) devotes an entire glossary to them.  The most prominent initialism in Medicaid policy discussions these days is SDOH: social determinants of health, […]

Medicaid Managed Care: What Can the Annual MLR Report Tell Us?

Over 32.8 million children are covered by Medicaid, and the large majority are enrolled by their state Medicaid agencies in managed care organizations (MCOs). In exchange for monthly capitation payments, the MCOs contract with the state Medicaid agency to furnish covered services through networks of providers. These arrangements, in 40 states and the District of […]

California’s Medicaid Managed Care Procurement: A Leap Forward

Last week, California’s Medicaid agency issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) to provide managed health care services to program beneficiaries. This is not just another Medicaid RFP. California is far and away the nation’s largest Medicaid managed care market. As of  September 2021 the state Medicaid agency contracted with 24 managed care organizations (MCOs) to […]

Medicaid Managed Care Financial Results for 2021: A Big Year for the Big Five

The Q4 2021 earnings reports are in, and the five largest companies in the Medicaid managed care market—CVS Health, Anthem, Centene, Molina, and UnitedHealth Group—did very well, thank you very much. CVS Health made $17.3 billion last year; Anthem, $7.5 billion; Centene, $1.8 billion; Molina, $1.0 billion; and UnitedHealth Group $24.0 billion. Not all of […]