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2025 Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility, Enrollment, and Renewal Policies Survey Released by KFF and CCF
During the unwinding of the COVID-related freeze on disenrollments in Medicaid, states were required to renew health insurance for all 94 million enrollees. The focus on Medicaid renewal processes during the unwinding revealed their complexity and inefficiencies in the system. With states facing an unprecedented volume of work and eligibility worker shortages, CMS provided new…
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Webinar: How Medicaid Supports Early Intervention for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities and Developmental Delays
The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, ZERO TO THREE, and IDEA Infant & Toddler Coordinators Association held a webinar Wednesday, April 2nd This webinar is free and open to the public. Why it matters: Medicaid is a key source of funding for IDEA Part C Early Intervention programs in most states. Early intervention…
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Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements: More than Meets the Eye
Republicans from President Trump on down are trying to hide the ball on how much they want to cut federal Medicaid payments to states and how they would go about doing so. But as my colleague Edwin Park has explained, they are working from the same playbook as they used in 2017 during the first…
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Parents and Health Care Providers Value Medicaid
The groundswell of support for Medicaid that has recently come to the surface may have been surprising to those targeting the health coverage program for cuts but it is not surprising to those of us who conduct Medicaid research. Medicaid, together with the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) insures over 37 million children. Medicaid, the…
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Happy 15th Birthday, ACA
Fifteen years ago this month, President Obama signed into law the two bills that together make up the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It was, to borrow a phrase, a BFD. In a blog, on the occasion of a previous birthday, my colleague Joan Alker methodically laid out just how big a deal the ACA was…
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Medicaid Helps Families of Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
In partnership, the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families and Family Voices, —a national nonprofit led by families and friends of children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and disabilities—are sharing perspectives from families whose children have special health care needs and disabilities and are covered by Medicaid. In a survey conducted…
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Medicaid Helps Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
In Partnership with: Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) Depend on Medicaid Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) are defined as children who have chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional conditions and who also require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required by children…
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Medicaid and CHIP Rules on Chopping Block
As my colleague Edwin Park has written, the House Budget Committee “menu” of Medicaid cuts includes rescinding regulations promulgated by the Biden Administration. Of particular interest to readers of SayAhhh!, the menu includes rescinding the Medicaid and CHIP eligibility and enrollment rule and the two companion rules on improving access to care in fee-for-service and…
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New Data Highlights How Medicaid Supports Student Success in School Districts Across the Country
Research consistently shows that Medicaid coverage in childhood has long-term benefits for children, schools and society including supporting student success. A Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis found that childhood Medicaid coverage also has a positive effect on the U.S. economy with long-term fiscal effects including boosting gross domestic product (GDP). For a better understanding of…
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Medicaid/CHIP Coverage by School Districts, 2019-2023
Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas…
