Access
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A Closer Look at CMS’s Proposed Rule to Improve Access to Care in Medicaid and CHIP
Editor’s Note: Since this post was published, CCF submitted formal comments on both the Medicaid Access and Managed Care proposed rules. The Biden Administration recently proposed two new rules on access to care in Medicaid and CHIP. The rules have long, formal titles: “Medicaid Program: Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services” and “Medicaid Program: Medicaid and…
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McCarthy Bill Would Radically Change Disability Standards for Medicaid and Reduce Coverage for Persons with Disabilities
As my colleagues Joan Alker and Edwin Park recently discussed, Section 321 of Speaker McCarthy’s debt ceiling bill, passed on a party-line vote in the House on April 26, 2023, would impose mandatory work reporting requirements on Medicaid nationwide, burdening states and worsening the health of millions of people. The Congressional Budget Office estimates this…
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Biden Administration Proposes Two New Rules to Significantly Improve Access to Care for Consumers Enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP
Editor’s Note: Since this post was published, CCF submitted formal comments on both the Medicaid Access and Managed Care proposed rules. If you thought you saw fireworks last night, it could be in celebration of the Biden Administration posting two(!) proposed rules yesterday tackling access to care in Medicaid and CHIP. It will take some…
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Biden Administration Takes Step to Improve DACA Grantees’ Access to Health Coverage, Congress and States Should Do More
Following up on President Biden’s announcement earlier this month, HHS released a proposed rule that would make DACA grantees eligible for Marketplace coverage and some Medicaid/CHIP coverage. This is an important step in the right direction – removing unnecessary and unjustified barriers to health coverage for DACA grantees – but there is more work to…
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Children’s Marketplace Enrollment Increases Again, but Most Children Will Still be Eligible for Medicaid After Unwinding
When it comes to recent trends in children’s coverage, much attention has rightly focused on the significant child enrollment increases in Medicaid over the past few years due in large part to the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement. Although the Marketplaces cover far fewer children by comparison, child enrollment in Marketplace plans has increased substantially for…
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DACA Grantees Move Step Closer to Affordable Health Coverage
The Biden Administration made an important announcement today – the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will soon release a proposed rule that would finally give Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) grantees access to health care coverage. Under current law, DACA grantees are ineligible for Medicaid, CHIP, and Marketplace coverage even though other,…
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We Just Checked and Medicaid Work Requirements are Still a Terrible Idea
Our world is constantly in flux and that can be stressful. But you can rest assured that Medicaid work requirements are a consistently and unalterably terrible idea. The years may pass, but some things never change. Just a few short years ago, numerous experts weighed in on the expected harms associated with Medicaid work requirements.…
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Medicaid Coverage At Risk for People with Disabilities: How You Can Help
By Michael Atkins, The Arc of the United States Medicaid is the nation’s primary health insurance for people with disabilities, covering over ten million people with disabilities under the age of 65. For many people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), Medicaid provides even more than insurance – it’s a lifeline. Millions of people with…
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Child Medicaid/CHIP Coverage by School District Now Available
[Editor’s Note: These maps were updated on August 3, 2023. See here for updated data.] As we’ve written before, Medicaid is an essential tools for supporting schools in improving children’s health, especially mental health. Research has shown that Medicaid coverage can help boost children’s school readiness and reduce absenteeism, as well as improve high school…
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Mapping the Barriers to Renewing Medicaid Coverage for Rural Arizonans When Continuous Coverage Ends
By Zaida Dedolph Piecoro and Bryna Koch Currently, half of those at risk of coverage loss at the end of the public health emergency (PHE) in Arizona are children under 19. Like many others, we at Children’s Action Alliance and our partners at the University of Arizona, Arizona Center for Rural Health are strategizing to…
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New Georgetown CHIR Case Study Report Examines Policies to Expand Primary Care Access in Rural New Mexico
By Maanasa Kona, Jalisa Clark, Megan Houston, and Emma Walsh-Alker with the Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms Primary care is a critical tool to prevent illness and death and to improve the equitable distribution of health care in populations. However, access to this important source of care is lacking, especially for many underserved…
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Response to Access RFI
Georgetown University Center for Children and Families submitted the following response to CMS’s request to identify strategies to ensure that individuals eligible for Medicaid and CHIP are able to apply, enroll in, and receive benefits in a timely and streamlined manner that promotes equitable coverage. CCF Response to Access RFI
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Research Update: More than 1 in 3 Children Lacked Access to Adequate Coverage in 2019
Regular readers know that, since record lows in 2016, child uninsurance has been climbing in recent years. Regular readers also know that uninsured rates don’t give a full picture of children’s coverage. Similar to our recent paper on kids who experience coverage gaps, a new article in Pediatrics shows that just having some health insurance…
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Gaps in Coverage: A Look at Child Health Insurance Trends
The number of uninsured children was on a downward trajectory for many years,[note]The Future of CHIP and Children’s Coverage, Report to Congress from the Medicaid and CHIP Payment Advisory Commission (MACPAC), March 2017, p. 7, available at https://www.macpac.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/The-Future-of-CHIP-and-Childrens-Coverage.pdf.[/note] but in 2017 started going back up, rising a full percentage point between 2016 and 2019 (see…
