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Maggie Clark

is a Senior State Health Policy Analyst at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families.

Maggie Clark is a Senior State Health Policy Analyst at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families (CCF). Her work focuses on improving Medicaid coverage for pregnant and postpartum people and leveraging Medicaid to support the healthy development of young children. She is the lead author of several reports and briefs on pregnancy-related health coverage and an expert on the state and federal movement to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage from 60 days to 12 months after the end of pregnancy.

Before joining Georgetown University, she was an award-winning health journalist in Florida covering all aspects of Florida's health delivery system, with special attention to Medicaid for children. She also held various research positions at the Pew Charitable Trusts in Washington, D.C. Maggie earned a BA in International Affairs from Florida State University and a Master of Journalism from the University of Maryland.

Latest From Maggie

Transparency in Medicaid Managed Care: The Power of the California Procurement Database

The Illinois Answers Project has just published a must-read piece of investigative reporting:  “Insurance Giant Failed Foster Kids with Inadequate Care.”  It raises a number of disturbing questions about the way children in foster care are being treated in the state’s Medicaid managed care program.  About the performance of a Centene subsidiary that has contracted […]

Proposed Rule Offers Opportunity to Help Advance Maternal Health Equity

We can’t improve what we don’t measure. That’s why it is important for all who want to improve maternal and child health to take a look at a proposed rule now up for comment that provides an important opportunity to increase transparency and accountability for the quality of care delivered through Medicaid and CHIP. The […]

Doula Services in Medicaid: Pathways and Payment Rates (Part 3 in a series)

As awareness around the worsening maternal mortality crisis increases, states continue to look towards covering doula care in Medicaid as a potential strategy to improve birth outcomes, particularly for birthing people of color. More than half the states are working towards Medicaid coverage for doula care. But how can states implement these programs effectively and […]

New Rule Lays Groundwork for Hospital Transparency and Accountability for Maternity Care

Last month, CMS finalized a rule that lays the groundwork for a major step forward for hospital accountability for maternity care. Tucked inside an annual final rulemaking on Medicare hospital payment, CMS added a new requirement for hospitals to publicly report maternity care quality metrics. Depending on the hospital’s performance, hospitals may be awarded a […]

New Brief: Postpartum Medicaid Extension An Opportunity to Improve Maternal and Child Health, But Impact Limited Without Medicaid Expansion

The U.S. is facing a worsening maternal mortality crisis that disproportionately affects pregnant people of color, and research suggests that the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning the constitutional protection of access to safe and legal abortions could further exacerbate current racial, economic and social inequities in maternal and infant […]