Media Coverage

The Washington Post By: Lenny Bernstein After 6 years, Arizona is re-activating their Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP): KidsCare on Tuesday, to provide health insurance to underprivileged families. Especially, KidsCare will allow for an approximate of 40,000 newly eligible children to be covered with health insurance. … A 2014 study by Georgetown University researchers concluded that…

Argus Leader: USA Today By: Cory Allen Heidelberger Medicaid expansion could really help South Dakota to cover approximately 50,000 residents, but Representative Leslie Heinemann mentions that it is perhaps too risky for South Dakota. … The three states Heinemann cites are all better off fiscally. According to a June 2016, Georgetown University Health Policy Institute brief,…

KY3 By: Michael A. Landis Paul Taylor, CEO of the Ozarks Community Hospital, expresses his concern on those states that have not expanded Medicaid – as from personal experience, he had to shut down most workers and medical services in one of his hospitals in Missouri, a non-expansion state. … “You are tearing a family…

Politico By: Christine Sexton Joan Alker, Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families’ executive director, was mentioned, as she commented on a computer glitch or ‘snafu’ eligibility system error that has impacted Florida’s children healthcare. … A computer glitch that affected the insurance status of as many as 102,000 Florida children has bewildered health care experts…

Kaiser Health News By: Michelle Andrews In some states, the babies of mothers that are covered by Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) are immediately eligible to be covered by Medicaid or CHIP, respectively, for precisely one year. However, a federal policy is now demanding re-evaluation after their first year of their lives, which has…

NC Policy Watch By: Clayton Henkel In an interview with NC Policy Watch, Adam Searing, co-author of the Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families report on Medicaid expansion, answered questions about the report and his personal opinion on the topic. He talked about the benefits of Medicaid expansion, how it has improved those states…

The Wall Street Journal By: Melinda Beck Health insurance plans have been increasing within a narrow network of health-care providers, which has been creating new issues on high medical bills whenever patients look for outside-of-plan physicians or treatment. … “That’s a good goal but the devil is in the details,” says Jack Hoadley, professor in the…

Health Affairs Blog By: Adam Searing and Jack Hoadley In a recent study, Adam Searing, from Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, and Jack Hoadley, from Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, found that safety-net providers in Medicaid expansion states have been improving their care delivery, financial security, and healthcare insurance coverage. … Read more…

Herald-Tribune By: Editorial Staff Florida state is spending $19.8 million to pay over the costs of attorneys involved in both of the sides of the lawsuit against the state for its improper Medicaid program for children. This is so because the state – for ten years – did not assess the issues that were brought…

Herald-Tribune By: Maggie Clark Florida’s Medicaid program agreement benefits enrolled children in Medicaid. However, it also requires Florida to pay $12 million in legal fees to attorneys defending parents and pediatric providers, and for the state to resolve any issues regarding the approximately 2 million poor children in Medicaid to have access to healthcare that…

The Tennessean By: Holly Fletcher As the TennCare expansion plan emerged to close the Medicaid gap, the specifics of the plan were explained – regarding who can enroll, access and assessment components, work component, financing methods, and the overall timeline for it. … The federal government has been clear that it’s not going to approve…

News Service Florida By: Margie Menzel A survey released by Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute showed that pediatricians have noticed that Medicaid children have been struggling to get the care they need, after being moved to other private health-care plans and/or doctors, without their parents’ consent. … The survey, released last month by Georgetown University’s…

West Plains Daily Quill By: Abby Hess The Georgetown University recent study on the benefits and disadvantages of Medicaid expansion is discussed thoroughly, providing direct quotes and statements from the co-authors, Jack Hoadley and Adam Searing, and other contributors. … A recently-released study conducted by Georgetown University highlights the impact of Medicaid expansion – or…

Health News Florida By: Julia Ochoa During an interview with Health News Florida, Joan Alker, executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University, discussed the report by CCF on Florida’s Medicaid Managed Care and the different issues and effects that have come up. … Since 2014, Florida’s Medicaid program has been…

America’s Essential Hospitals By: Rachel Schwartz According to two separate studies by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families and the Kaiser Family Foundation, Medicaid expansion has given positive changes to those expansion states, in that it has helped reducing uncompensated care costs by providing health insurance to more patients. … New data have begun…

CQ Roll Call By: Marissa Evans The state of Kentucky has expanded Medicaid, and, after six months, Governor Matt Bevin has presented a plan, which states ways in which the state covers 400,000 low socio-economic status citizens. This waiver intends to resolve healthcare issues, improve the unsustainability of Medicaid, and increase employment and community engagement. In order to…

Marketplace By: Dan Gorenstein In an interview with Dan Gorenstein, Joan Alker, the executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University, talks about the different struggles that the victims of Orlando’s mass shooting have been seeing in regards to paying their medical bills. … “That debt will likely be shifted.” “Hospitals…

KELO Newstalk 1320 By: Jack Taylor According to the new study from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, Jack Hoadley, co-author of the study, mentioned that Medicaid expansion states have been saving money. One of the nurses from the South Dakota Nurses Association, knowing that the sooner the healthcare assessment, the better outcome…

NC Policy Watch By: Adam Searing The 19 states that have still not expanded Medicaid are limiting their improvements to their uninsured and uncompensated care, as well the delivery of care. Therefore, physicians at these non-expansion states are struggling to meet their patient needs and assess their issues accordingly. According to a policy brief released…