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Tricia Brooks

Tricia Brooks, MBA, is a Research Professor at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families (CCF), a nonpartisan policy and research center whose mission is to expand and improve health coverage for children and families. At CCF, Ms. Brooks focuses on policy, program administration, and the quality of health care relating to Medicaid and CHIP coverage for children and families. Prior to joining CCF, she served as the founding chief executive officer of New Hampshire Healthy Kids, a legislatively-created, non-profit corporation that administered the state’s CHIP program and managed the Medicaid and CHIP consumer assistance hub. Ms. Brooks was recently appointed by the Comptroller General to the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC), an independent commission that advises Congress on issues affecting Medicaid and CHIP. She has also served as faculty or as a technical advisory group member on a variety of initiatives associated with advancing Medicaid and CHIP coverage for children and low-income families at the national level. Ms. Brooks holds a Master of Business Administration from Suffolk University and is an 11-year veteran at CCF.

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CMS Tools Suggest Key Roles for Managed Care Plans in Helping Enrollees Retain Coverage

While we were all unwinding from our Thanksgiving celebrations, CMS was busy putting out two new tools to assist state Medicaid eligibility and enrollment operations. The first is focused on preparing for the return to normal operations after the COVID-related continuous enrollment requirement is lifted while the second is a refresher on best practices and […]

Medicaid Continuous Coverage Extended with Renewal of the PHE

The Biden administration has extended the public health emergency (PHE) for 90 days, from October 18, 2021 through January 16, 2022. What does this mean for Medicaid? First, the maintenance of effort provisions in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act remain in effect until January 31, 2022 (the end of the month after the PHE […]

MACPAC Research Shows Closing the Continuous Coverage Gap for Kids is Within Reach

I was delighted to see MACPAC’s recent examination of continuous coverage and churn in Medicaid and CHIP. It was the first such analysis I’ve seen using data from the Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS) from 42 states and D.C. While the analysis includes all non-elderly Medicaid enrollees, I’m going to focus mostly on the […]