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Maggie Clark

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

Fewer People Lost Postpartum Medicaid Coverage During the Pandemic, New Study Finds

More people had stable access to Medicaid coverage in the year after giving birth during the COVID-19 pandemic, which suggests that the Families First Coronavirus Response Act’s Medicaid continuous coverage provision, which linked receipt of enhanced federal Medicaid and CHIP funding to a prohibition on involuntary disenrollment from Medicaid during the COVID-19 public health emergency, […]

Policymakers Have More Work to Do to Address the Black Maternal Health Crisis

By Maggie Clark and Kay Johnson Last month, policymakers and advocates marked the fifth-annual Black Maternal Health Week and called attention to the policy changes that can help put an end to the country’s increasing and unacceptably high rates of maternal mortality, especially for Black women who die from pregnancy-related causes at a rate more […]

One Year of Medicaid Postpartum Coverage Option Begins Today, More Approvals to Come

Today marks the start of a significant policy change that will extend lifesaving health coverage to hundreds of thousands of pregnant and postpartum people each year: the American Rescue Plan’s option to extend postpartum coverage from 60 days to one year after the end of pregnancy. CMS announced today that Louisiana was the first state […]

Medicaid Pregnancy Coverage Fills a Critical Health Insurance Gap During Pandemic, Data Shows

Among all the Medicaid beneficiaries who’ve had their health coverage protected through the COVID-19 public health emergency, pregnant women stand out, new data released from CMS show. As readers of the SayAhhh! Blog know, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act included a “continuous coverage” provision that linked receipt of enhanced federal Medicaid and CHIP funding […]

More States Make Progress on Extending Postpartum Medicaid Coverage

The 2022 state legislative season is nearing its end in the coming weeks, and this year we’ve continued to see significant efforts in a broad range of states working to extend the Medicaid postpartum coverage from the current cutoff of just 60 days to a full 12 months after the end of the pregnancy. Regular […]