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New Medicaid State Planning Grants for Mobile Crisis Intervention Services
This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it awarded $15 million in planning grants to 20 state Medicaid agencies to support expanding access to community-based mobile crisis intervention services for Medicaid beneficiaries. As mentioned in our previous blog, the American Rescue Plan created a new state option for state Medicaid…
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Loss of Medicaid After the PHE Will Likely Exceed 15 Million Estimated by Urban
The Urban Institute recently released a new report projecting that Medicaid and CHIP will have provided access to health care (and peace of mind) for an additional 17 million children and adults by the end of 2021. The increase is largely due to the COVID-related requirement that states keep Medicaid enrollees continuously covered during the…
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CMS, FNS Announce Additional Demonstrations to Evaluate Impacts of Data Sharing
On Friday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) posted a Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS) Informational Bulletin to notify state Medicaid agencies of an additional demonstration to encourage and analyze interagency data sharing to help eligible students access free and reduced-price school meals. The new demonstration, issued by the U.S. Department…
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The Poorest Children Are The Ones That Lost Health Insurance During The Pandemic
While we won’t be able to do our in-depth analysis of children’s health coverage trends this fall due to problems collecting American Community Survey data during the pandemic, the Census Bureau did release a report on national trends in health insurance coverage in 2020 using the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement. Overall,…
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Medicaid Expansion Narrows Maternal Health Coverage Gaps, But Racial Disparities Persist
Introduction The United States is experiencing a maternal mortality crisis and has the highest maternal mortality rate of any industrialized country in the world.8 In 2019, more than 750 women died of maternal causes in the United States while pregnant or within 42 days after the end of pregnancy, data from the Centers for Disease…
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Federal and State Policymakers Must Address Alarmingly High Maternal Mortality Rates and Racial Disparities
The United States has an unacceptably high maternal mortality rate and it is getting worse. The latest data from the CDC shows that maternal mortality increased significantly between 2018 and 2019, topping out at the highest recorded rate since the agency began tracking the rate more than 30 years ago. A country’s maternal mortality rate…
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Medicaid Expansion Narrows Maternal Health Coverage Gaps, But Racial Disparities Persist (Online Chartbook)
Introduction The United States is experiencing a maternal mortality crisis. The nation has the highest maternal mortality rate of any industrialized country in the world. More than 750 women died of maternal causes in the United States while pregnant or within 42 days after the end of pregnancy in 2019. The same year, Black women…
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House Energy and Commerce Committee Releases Text of Medicaid/CHIP Reconciliation Provisions
Last night, legislative language was released by the House Energy and Commerce Committee (which has jurisdiction over Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)) – the “Build Back Better Act”. The Committee plans to “mark up” these provisions starting Monday — so things are now moving quickly inside the Beltway to move forward a…
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Transparency in Medicaid Managed Care: Findings from a 13- State Scan
Report Download the report. Appendix Online appendix tables. Blog Read the blog.
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Scan of 13 States’ Medicaid Managed Care Organizations Uncovers Need for More Transparency
At the beginning of July, North Carolina became the fortieth state to make the switch from fee-for-service (FFS) to Medicaid managed care. With the new system barely off the ground, a recent news report highlighted the stories of providers facing denied prior authorizations, delayed payments, and excessive paperwork. One provider stressed that she hadn’t received…
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Medicaid Expansion Narrows Maternal Health Coverage Gaps, But Racial Disparities Persist (Appendix)
Appendix A: Uninsured Rate for Reproductive Age Women (18-44) by State and Race, 2019 Appendix B: Uninsured Rate for Reproductive Age Women (18-44) by State and Ethnicity, 2019 Appendix C: Uninsured Rate for Reproductive Age Women (18-44) by State, 2013-2019 Appendix D: Number of Uninsured Reproductive Age Women (18-44) by State, 2013-2019 Back to report
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Medicaid Expansion Narrows Maternal Health Coverage Gaps, But Racial Disparities Persist (Methodology)
Methodology Data Sources Georgetown Center for Children and Families uses the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS), an annual survey of approximately 3.5 million individuals, to analyze national, state, and local trends in health insurance coverage. Unless otherwise noted, the data in this report come from the Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), a two-thirds…
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Transparency in Medicaid Managed Care: Findings from a 13- State Scan (Appendix)
Appendix A. Characteristics of MCOs Studied (View in full screen) Appendix B. Data Elements Sought (View in full screen) Appendix C. MCO Performance on Child Core Set Metrics (View in full screen) Appendix D. MCO Performance on Maternity Core Set Metrics (View in full screen) Appendix E. MCO Performance on Child Core Set by Parent…
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Research Update: Health Care Spending Differences by Race and Ethnicity
This week, I’m highlighting recent research looking at differences in health care spending by race and ethnicity. Researchers from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor examined health care spending, health system encounters (like office visits, emergency admissions, and prescriptions), diagnosed health conditions, and self-reported…
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CCF Welcomes National Urban Fellow Tomás Guarnizo
Today we are excited to welcome our first National Urban Fellow, Tomás Guarnizo, to the CCF team. Tomás will be completing his Masters in Policy Management at the McCourt School of Public Policy while he works with us on our maternal/early childhood health and managed care projects. The National Urban Fellows (NUF) program, like CCF and…
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CHIP has Proven Its Worth, It’s Time to Modernize it and Make it a Permanent Part of Children’s Health Coverage
Since its inception in 1997, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) has established itself as a critical piece of the federal/state response to children’s health care needs and the historic reduction in children’s uninsured rates (which sadly started going in the wrong direction during the Trump Administration). In addition to covering over 6 million children…
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New! Tips for Advocates on Preparing for Unwinding of the PHE Continuous Eligibility Provision
[Editor’s Note: A new version of our Tips and Best Practices for Unwinding the Medicaid Continuous Coverage Protection can be found here.] Although the end of the public health emergency (PHE) remains a moving target, it’s not too early to start planning for phasing out the continuous eligibility maintenance of effort provision and the eventual…
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Wyoming Transitions Its Separate CHIP Program into Medicaid
In May, Wyoming received approval to transition its separate Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) into what we call an M-CHIP program, where all children funded through CHIP coverage expansions are enrolled in Medicaid. Wyoming follows in the footsteps of North Dakota, Michigan, New Hampshire, and California – all of which converted their separate CHIP programs…
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Stakeholders Invited to Engage with DHS to Achieve a Fairer Public Charge Policy
Earlier this week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) requesting broad public feedback on the public charge ground of inadmissibility. If you’re scratching your head at the idea of an “A”NPRM, you’re not alone. Think of it as a Request for Information (RFI) specifically tied to the…
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Medicaid Wars: The Unwinding (and Litigation) Continues (Episode IV)
It’s been seven months and change since the Biden Administration took office. What it found waiting for it on January 20 was not just a crisis of democracy and a global pandemic and a surge of unaccompanied children at the border, but also a large pile of policy intended to undercut the Administration’s ability to…
