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Is Your State Leaving Money on the Table? How CHIP Health Service Initiatives Can Help States Support Children’s Access to Care
At a time when states are facing growing fiscal pressures and increasing strain on health systems, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Health Services Initiatives (HSIs) represent an often overlooked source of federal funding offering flexible financing to support outreach and targeted health initiatives to improve children’s health. This source of federally-matched funding becomes increasingly…
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Implementing Costly Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements: Who Will Foot the Bill?
Introduction The budget reconciliation bill enacted in July 2025 (H.R. 1) includes two major changes to federal Medicaid law that will impose large implementation costs on most states. One mandates the states that extend Medicaid coverage to low-income (“expansion”) adults require those adults to report 80 hours of work or community service per month. The other…
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CCF Comments on “Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility” NPRM
The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families submitted the following comments to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services regarding the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: “Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility.” Read the Comments
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U.S. and State-by-State Child Health Coverage Trends
From 2022 to 2024, the rate of uninsured children increased from 5.1% to 6%, which is the highest rate of uninsured children in nearly a decade. This was a statistically significant change and equates to an 18% increase in the number of uninsured children nationwide, marking a dramatic reversal of the progress made on child…
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Are States Ready to Implement HR 1 and Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements?
Key Findings Introduction On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law HR 1 (P.L. 119-21), the massive budget reconciliation bill that cuts more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and Marketplace health coverage. The law strips coverage from many lawfully residing immigrants, ties the hands of states to raise revenue to cover the state share…