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CMS Releases Telehealth Toolkit with Special Emphasis on Pediatrics

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted access to health care as providers scramble to up their game in regard to telehealth. To assist states and stakeholders in advancing the use of telehealth, CMS has released a Medicaid and CHIP Telehealth Toolkit with a special emphasis on pediatrics. The toolkit is intended to help identify state-level…

April 23, 2020

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Tricia Brooks

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Most States Show Improvement in Automated (Ex Parte) Medicaid Renewal Rates

Although ex parte was hardly a household term before the unwinding of the Medicaid continuous enrollment requirement, most stakeholders and observers are now aware of the critical role automating renewals using data available to the state can play in reducing churn and promoting continuity of coverage in Medicaid and CHIP. The policy not only removes…

January 26, 2024

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Supreme Court Reduces Rights to Women’s Health Care Because Congress Didn’t Use the Magic Words that Congress Didn’t Know About

Here we go again. Earlier this week, on June 26, 2025, the Supreme Court issued yet another dubious decision involving two of its favorite topics for judicial malpractice: women’s rights and access to the courts. In the case, known as Medina, the court ruled to allow South Carolina to exclude Planned Parenthood providers from the…

July 1, 2025

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Leonardo Cuello

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Updated List of Flexibilities Highlight Variety of Approaches States Are Taking to Promote Continuity of Coverage During the Unwinding

To meet the unprecedented moment of the unwinding of the Medicaid continuous coverage protection, states have implemented a range of innovative policies to make the renewal process smoother for enrollees as well as state eligibility workers. One tool that states have increasingly used is Section 1902(e)(14)(A) waivers, or “e14s,” which we have written about previously…

November 1, 2023

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Allexa Gardner

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Biden Administration Says No to Premiums in Medicaid

Just before the end of the year, the Biden Administration took an important stand protecting people enrolled in Medicaid. Three states (AR, GA, and MT) received news from CMS the week before Christmas on section 1115 Medicaid waiver requests of various kinds – but with one common element – that their plans to charge premiums…

January 13, 2022

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Joan Alker

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Congress’s failure to re-up CHIP funding shows its striking ineptitude

Washington Post By: Editorial Board Disagreement in Congress is not necessarily a sign of dysfunction. But when both parties broadly agree that something should happen yet serially fail to follow through, the nation’s leaders look particularly inept. … Democrats and Republicans in Congress created CHIP in 1997 to assist families who make too much to…

January 9, 2018

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Turning Back the Clock on Medicaid Would Undo Progress Nation Has Achieved in Reducing Uninsured Rate

Last week, CMS Administrator Seema Verma gave a major policy address to the National Association of Medicaid Directors. She made two things crystal clear. First, she cares about protecting “deserving” Americans: “…our safety net should be stronger to ensure that no deserving Americans fall through the cracks.” Second, she does not believe that the Medicaid…

November 21, 2017

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Andy Schneider

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Why Are So Many Kids Losing Medicaid Coverage?

At the end of the COVID pandemic, more than half (54%) of the nation’s children were covered by Medicaid or CHIP; the vast majority by Medicaid. So, the lifting of the pandemic-related Medicaid continuous enrollment protection this spring is a really big deal, putting low-income children at risk of losing access to health care and/or…

August 23, 2023

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Joan Alker

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Tricia Brooks

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What Does Public Charge Mean for Immigrant Families?

If you’ve been following news reports about federal immigration policy, you’ve been busy – there is a lot going on. Some changes to immigration rules went into effect with little fanfare (see NILC’s summary of the updates to the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Manual with instructions for US embassies deciding whether to grant immigrant and…

May 2, 2018

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Kelly Whitener

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More Young Children Uninsured Since Trump Administration Took Office, Virginia a Bright Spot

As we lament the swift reversal in health coverage for children of all ages, we also wanted to take an initial look at how this trend specifically impacts young children. Sadly, children under age 6 were not spared from coverage losses. As these tables detail, there are nearly 180,000 more uninsured young children than at…

October 13, 2020

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Elisabeth Wright Burak

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Congress Managed to Do Real Damage to Children’s Health Insurance

Vice By: Mark Hay On September 30, Congress failed to re-fund the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which provides access to low-cost insurance for almost 9 million kids and hundreds of thousands of pregnant women in families that make too much to qualify for Medicaid but still need assistance. This lapse, the result of a…

February 27, 2018

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Untangling the Current Debate Around Federal Medicaid Cuts, the “Rural Health Transformation Program” and State Medicaid Budgets

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the budget reconciliation law signed into law by President Trump (HR1) will result in a gross reduction of $990 billion in federal Medicaid/CHIP spending over 10 years and an increase in the number of uninsured Americans by 10 million. This is the largest cut to Medicaid in the history…

September 2, 2025

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Adam Searing

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Good, Bad News on Medicaid Costs

Urban Milwaukee By: John Peacock A state’s lagging economic performance can have a silver lining – in the form of increased federal assistance. Thanks to a Medicaid formula that currently provides more generous cost-sharing to states that are below average in per capita income, Wisconsin’s rather anemic personal income growth will save the state millions…

October 5, 2017

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Why are There More Uninsured Kids and What Can We Do About It?

Yesterday the Census Bureau released one of its annual surveys (the Current Population Survey or CPS), which looks at health insurance status. This year, in an unusual move, the Bureau actually released a mini special report focusing on children. While we await more data at the end of the month from the American Community Survey…

September 12, 2019

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Joan Alker

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The 2020 Census citizenship question will affect your health care

Think Progress By: Amanda Michelle Gomez Monday’s announcement that the 2020 census will include a question about citizenship was quickly met with uproar. Census data is in a very big way the bedrock of our democracy, as it’s used to decide congressional seats and electors in each state and how voting districts are drawn. But it’s also…

March 28, 2018

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Unwinding Wednesday #25: Renewal Reports Provide Important Insights to States’ Unwinding Plans

Next week, the continuous enrollment will expire and as a result, some families may lose coverage as soon as April 1. As states undergo final preparations for the unwinding to officially begin, state renewal reports are an important resource for stakeholders to prepare and help monitor the unwinding process. We covered the basics of the…

March 22, 2023

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Allexa Gardner

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Peyton Yee

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Increase in Federal Medicaid Matching Rate Should Be Essential Element of Any COVID-19 Response

Federal policymakers have started to consider how to address a serious economic downturn that could result from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. For example, the Trump Administration is pursuing a temporary payroll tax cut and tax deferrals for certain industries, even though the proposal would not provide effective fiscal stimulus, as the Center on Budget…

March 11, 2020

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Edwin Park

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What’s New for the 2025 Plan Year Open Enrollment

As the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces enter their 12th year, enrollment is at an unprecedented high, insurer competition is robust, and four out of five Marketplace enrollees can find a plan for $10 per month or less. This has also been a year of relative stability, without dramatic policy reforms or market disruptions. However, there are several…

October 25, 2024

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Sabrina Corlette

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Medicaid Work Requirements and Beyond: CMS Administrator Tries a New Work-Around

For the past 3 years, CMS Administrator Seema Verma has been on a crusade to convert Medicaid from health insurance to a welfare program. The spear at the point of this attack has been work requirements, which, under the guise of “demonstrations,” she has sought to impose as a condition of eligibility for Medicaid coverage. …

January 30, 2020

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Andy Schneider

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An Estimated 3.8 Million Eligible Children Could Lose Medicaid Due to Administrative Churn During the Unwinding

The Office of the HHS Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) released new projections of the number of people likely to lose Medicaid after the COVID-related continuous coverage protection is lifted at the end of the public health emergency (PHE). Similar to other analyses, ASPE estimates that about 15 million people, including 5.3 million…

August 22, 2022

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Tricia Brooks

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