The community health worker (CHW) workforce saw an infusion of funds during the COVID-19 pandemic from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and American Rescue Plan of approximately $300 million and $200 million, respectively. Other federal entities like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded grants to complement state efforts, all with […]
The earnings reports for the “Big Five” for the quarter ending March 31—known here as PHE Q13—are in. The “Big Five”—CVSHealth (Aetna), Centene, Elevance Health (formerly Anthem), Molina Healthcare, and United Health Group—need no introduction, either to state Medicaid agencies or investors. Together, they had 44.2 million Medicaid enrollees as of March 31. If children […]
We just received a copy of Florida’s report to CMS on its first month of “unwinding” the Medicaid continuous coverage provisions for April and the data is alarming. Of the 461,322 people whose eligibility was checked, more than half — 54% or 249,427 people — were terminated. Most of those terminated (82%) had their cases […]
Georgetown University Center for Children and Families (CCF) has sounded the alarm bells for more than a year warning that without strong state leadership and careful attention, millions of children, parents, disabled people and others eligible for Medicaid could be erroneously disenrolled for procedural reasons. Children are far more likely to lose Medicaid and CHIP […]
In March this year, the North Carolina legislature passed Medicaid expansion with bipartisan support, becoming the first state to pass expansion legislatively since Virginia in 2018. In an interesting turn of events, many House and Senate Republicans in North Carolina, who for years staunchly opposed expanding Medicaid, changed their positions leading up to the bill’s […]
We’ve been closely reading Section 321 of the House-passed debt ceiling bill which would establish a pernicious new maze of red tape to trip people up and cause them to lose Medicaid coverage. While posing as a “work requirement”, this is really a plan to make people jump through more hoops in order to keep […]
