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Maggie Clark

Maggie Clark is a Senior State Health Policy Analyst at the Center for Children and Families (CCF). 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.

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Clarifying Medicaid Billing Practices Can Help States Prioritize Young Children’s Healthy Emotional Development

Evidence continues to mount that healthy social and emotional development in infants and toddlers underpins a lifetime of healthy physical development. But Medicaid policy and practice solutions to improve infant and early childhood mental health are not always clear, even when the importance of early diagnosis and treatment is well understood. A new report by […]

Dismissal of Co-Chair of Iowa Medicaid Advisory Panel is Setback for Much Needed Oversight

Medicaid is evolving. Its consumer advisory committees should too. State Medicaid programs are bureaucracies, and it’s understandable that agency leaders may not always have a pulse on what’s happening with members and providers and plans at any given moment. That’s why federal law has long required states to set up medical care advisory committees (MCACs), […]

Thousands of Arkansans Face Losing Health Coverage Due to New Red Tape Rules

[Editor’s Note: According to the latest press reports, more than 4,500 Arkansas Works enrollees lost their health coverage for failing to comply with the program’s work requirement for three months. CCF staff will continue to monitor this situation and update readers when more information is available.] Thousands of adults in Arkansas will likely lose their […]

After Two Months Under New Work Requirements, Thousands of Arkansans May Lose Medicaid Without Even Realizing the Rules Changed

Arkansas’s Department of Human Services released numbers on its work requirement late Tuesday and they continue to suggest that the rollout of the new work requirements policy is extremely flawed and that thousands could lose coverage by September 1. Since this is now the second month of the work requirement rollout, a large group of […]

Early Childhood Educators Support Children’s Healthy Development: Who is Meeting their Health Care Needs?

Early childhood educators care for our youngest children during the time of their most rapid brain growth. They help foster essential brain development that builds a foundation for children to learn and grow for the rest of their lives. But the teachers themselves often go without. Faced with low wages and limited workplace supports, many […]

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