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Is Your State Leaving Money on the Table? How CHIP Health Service Initiatives Can Help States Support Children’s Access to Care
At a time when states are facing growing fiscal pressures and increasing strain on health systems, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Health Services Initiatives (HSIs) represent an often overlooked source of federal funding offering flexible financing to support outreach and targeted health initiatives to improve children’s health. This source of federally-matched funding becomes increasingly…
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CMS Releases Guidance on 6-Month Medicaid Renewals for Expansion Adults
Guidance on implementing six-month renewals for the Medicaid adult expansion group, as required by H.R. 1 was sent to state Medicaid directors earlier today (March 6, 2026). The delayed guidance (which was due by December 31, 2025) has kept states waiting for key details that are needed to set state policy, make system changes, and…
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Self-Help Tools and Tutorials Are Critical to Implementing Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements
Last week we updated our scan of Medicaid renewal tutorials and self-help tools in advance of implementation of semi-annual renewals for the Medicaid expansion group starting in 2027. For all enrollees, not just expansion adults, it’s important for states to keep these resources updated and relevant. And it’s not too early to start thinking about…
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Let’s Start a Conversation about Data to Monitor the Impact of H.R. 1’s Work Reporting Requirements
Monitoring the implementation of work reporting requirements in Medicaid will be incredibly important to assessing the policy’s impact, identifying bottlenecks or glitches in the system, and enabling rapid response to address problems. We have a baseline of data from the Medicaid performance indicators, which have been in place since 2014, and were expanded to more…
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Maximizing the Use of Self-Help Resources Should Be a Priority as HR 1 Policies Are Implemented
As the 41 states that expanded Medicaid to low-income adults under the Affordable Care Act, approach the implementation of H.R. 1’s federally mandated semi-annual renewals, we thought it would be helpful to review how states handled the daunting task of outreach during the unwinding of the pandemic-era Medicaid continuous coverage provision. During the unwinding, we…
