CMS Asks States and Stakeholders to Lean In and Help Respond to Mounting Concerns About Eligible Children, New Moms and Others Losing Medicaid During Unwinding

As outcomes data has emerged from states getting an early start on resuming Medicaid renewals, there are mounting concerns about eligible children, new moms, and others losing coverage due to procedural disenrollments. In response, CMS released additional information on the unwinding, including a letter from HHS Secretary Becerra to governors urging them to adopt additional […]

Tricia Brooks

CCF Comments to Medicaid Drug Rebate Program Proposed Rule

Under the highly effective Medicaid Drug Rebate Program (MDRP), drug manufacturers must provide substantial rebates to state Medicaid programs in order for their prescription drugs to be covered by Medicaid.  Because of the MDRP, the Congressional Budget Office has found that Medicaid obtains the lowest prescription drug prices, net of rebates and discounts, among other […]

Edwin Park

Proposed Expansion of Self-funding for Small Employers Would Roll Back Affordable Care Act Protections, Pre-empt State Insurance Oversight

By Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy Center on Health Insurance Reforms The U.S. House of Representatives Education & Workforce Committee is poised to advance a bill, H.R. 2813, that would encourage the expansion of self-funded employer-based insurance exempt from key Affordable Care Act (ACA) protections and preempt states’ efforts to stabilize premiums for small […]

Guest

Medicaid Managed Care: A New Group Arrives on the CMCS Block

There’s a new box on the Center for Medicaid & CHIP Services (CMCS) organization chart!  It’s the Managed Care Group, one of (now) eight Groups within CMCS that manage the Medicaid program for the federal government.  You’re probably thinking, “So what? A federal bureaucracy gets a new Group. What difference will that make for children […]

Andy Schneider
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