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Do Nothing to Renew or Get an Updated Eligibility Determination? CMS Puts out Final Marketplace Renewal Rules

CMS has adopted the proposed rules for QHP renewal and redetermination of premium tax credits published with very few changes. As I wrote in this blog, the good news is that the final rules provide an opportunity for consumers to be automatically re-enrolled in the same or a similar plan without taking action. The downside…

September 4, 2014

By

Tricia Brooks

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Number of Uninsured Children Stabilized and Improved Slightly During the Pandemic

Data released by the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) for 2021 finds that nationally the estimated number and rate of uninsured children went down slightly from 2019 to 2021. This data provides the first comprehensive look at what happened to children with respect to this metric during the first part of the COViD-19…

December 7, 2022

By

Joan Alker

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Aubrianna Osorio

and

Edwin Park

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Dialing for Dollars

Every few months Congress is looking around for money – money to pay for future expenditures, money to reduce the deficit, money to offset reductions in revenue from tax cuts. When Congress goes on such an expedition, they look around at many different parts of the budget – discretionary, non-discretionary, defense, non-defense – and try…

May 18, 2017

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Kelly Whitener

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How Would Medicaid Provisions of New Law to Address Opioid Epidemic Impact Children?

Today President Trump signed the “SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act” into law. SUPPORT is an acronym for “Substance Use—Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment.” The bill, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in both the House (396-14) and the Senate (98-1), is 250 pages long. It affects a broad array of federal…

October 24, 2018

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Andy Schneider

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Evaluating the Administration’s Narrative on Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements

It turns out that last week was Never Mind Week. Who would have guessed? On Monday the Administration released its “Budget for a Better America,” proposing to cut federal Medicaid spending by nearly $1.5 trillion (with a “t”) over the next ten years. These cuts included a mandate that state Medicaid programs require that “able-bodied,…

March 19, 2019

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Andy Schneider

Research & Reports

Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015: Summary of Key Provisions Impacting Children

On April 16th, President Obama signed into law the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), now Public Law 114-10, which provides new federal funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) through 2017 and permanently adjusts the flawed Medicare physician payment formula to prevent cuts in reimbursements to Medicare providers. It also extends…

May 27, 2015

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Elisabeth Wright Burak

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Weaponizing Medicaid Paperwork

It turns out that CMS has a “Patients Over Paperwork” initiative, which the agency describes as “our effort to reduce administrative burden and improve the customer experience while putting patients first.” Who knew? If you’ve been following Administrator Verma’s crusade to condition Medicaid coverage on meeting requirements to document work, you would be quite surprised.…

January 23, 2018

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Andy Schneider

Research & Reports

Opportunities to Support Maternal and Child Health Through Medicaid’s New Postpartum Coverage Extension

Introduction The new state option to extend Medicaid and CHIP coverage for one year after the end of pregnancy is a transformational opportunity for states to support improved maternal and infant health in the year following birth. It also offers state Medicaid leaders a focused moment to use the successful implementation of the new policy…

July 15, 2022

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Maggie Clark

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Elisabeth Wright Burak

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California’s Medicaid Managed Care Waiver: New Potential for Access and Transparency

One of the most significant Medicaid managed care developments in 2021 happened on December 29, when CMS approved federal funding and waivers for California’s reform initiative, Advancing Innovation in Medi-Cal (CalAIM). The approval involved two sets of waivers, one operating under section 1115 of the Social Security Act, the other under section 1915(b)(4). For good…

January 14, 2022

By

Andy Schneider

and

Kyrstin Racine

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In Midst of Health Care Turmoil, States Step up for Immigrant Children

By Lena O’Rourke, CLASP The future of federal health policy feels uncertain right now—but for low-income children the need for high-quality health insurance has never been more urgent. Because governors, lawmakers, doctors, teachers, and parents all know how important health insurance is for the wellbeing of children, they want strong policy that provides coverage to children.…

July 21, 2017

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Guest

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Pediatricians Lead Charge to Build a Healthier Future for America’s Children

Hats off to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for its efforts to create a healthier, happier, safer future for America’s children. At a panel discussion this week moderated by Dr. Richard Besser of ABC News, AAP leaders unveiled the “Blueprint for Children: How the Next President Can Build a Foundation for a Healthy Future.”…

September 23, 2016

By

Cathy Hope

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Alabama Mothers and Children Will Bear the Brunt of Proposed Medicaid Restrictions

As regular readers of SayAhhh! know, on January 11th CMS released guidance announcing its interest in approving state proposals to impose work requirements on Medicaid beneficiaries. Since then CMS has approved three waivers to do so (along with other important and harmful changes such as lockouts which we are not talking about today) – Kentucky,…

March 20, 2018

By

Joan Alker

Research & Reports

Medicaid’s Pandemic-Era Continuous Coverage Protections Helped Reduce Number of Uninsured Children

Download Report PDF Introduction Data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) for 2022 finds that the number of uninsured children continued to decline over the pandemic period – most likely as a consequence of the continuous coverage protection in Medicaid put in place by one of the first COVID-19 rescue packages, the…

November 15, 2023

By

Joan Alker

and

Aubrianna Osorio

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We Can Fix This, People! More than Half of Uninsured Parents Are Hispanic

New data zeroes in on a subgroup of uninsured adults not always studied: uninsured parents. An Urban Institute report released yesterday found that more than half (57 percent) of uninsured parents surveyed in March/June 2014 were Hispanic and more than one-third (38.4 percent) said their primary language was Spanish. While I know this does not…

September 10, 2014

By

Sonya Schwartz

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Getting MAGI Right: When Does Social Security Income Count?

Last week, we released a primer on the basics of MAGI – how rules for counting household size and income to determine eligibility for Medicaid and CHIP have been aligned with Marketplace subsidies. The move to MAGI has brought about a number of changes in Medicaid and CHIP, but to further complicate things, there are…

February 4, 2015

By

Tricia Brooks

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Medicaid: The Port in a Storm for Children and Families

As Harvey and Irma remind us, natural disasters happen. And when they do, they threaten the health of children and families and the ability of providers to deliver needed services. It takes time for displaced families, providers, and communities to get back on their feet. It also takes resources. While federal Medicaid funds are always…

September 11, 2017

By

Andy Schneider

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New and Improved! A Special Enrollment Period for Some Caught in Medicaid Coverage Gap

As part of our Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded Navigator Technical Assistance project, we’ve helped Navigators and assisters answer tough questions from consumers. Many questions focused on special enrollment periods (SEPs), including a new “tax season” SEP that applied to individuals who learned about the requirement to have coverage only when they found out they were…

April 27, 2015

By

JoAnn Volk

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CMS Administrator Verma Proposes to Repeal the Medicaid Access Rule

For the past two years, CMS Administrator Seema Verma has wanted to “rollback” the Medicaid Access Rule. That’s the CMS regulation that implements the requirement in the Medicaid statute that rates paid to physicians and other providers be “sufficient” so that enough participate in Medicaid to give beneficiaries access to covered services. In the…

July 16, 2019

By

Andy Schneider

Research & Reports

#4 BEING THE FINAL PART (REALLY) OF THE “WHITHER PREMIUM ASSISTANCE ” SERIES

Where we left off: I was musing that the new CHIPRA options to do premium assistance may not prove to be all that much more attractive than the existing ones. Some states may reconfigure their programs (if they can) to qualify for the performance bonus. So far there hasn’t been a rush to pick up…

May 3, 2010

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Consumers Should Resist the Urge to Do Nothing and Renew Coverage through the Federal Marketplace

When enrollment reopens in the health insurance marketplaces in just a few days, the 7-8 million current enrollees will have an opportunity to make sure they get the right amount of financial assistance and are enrolled in a plan that best fits their needs for 2015. This new brief outlines the process for consumers in…

November 14, 2014

By

Tricia Brooks

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