In 2020, Georgia submitted a waiver under Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to allow the state to exit HealthCare.gov; the Trump Administration approved the request in November of last year. Under this proposal, the 500,000 Georgians who use the federal marketplace every year to enroll in private health plans and Medicaid would […]
State seeks to become the first to provide continuous coverage to all children enrolled in Medicaid until age six while continuing to restrict children’s access to health care by continuing to deny them the EPSDT benefit package provided to children in all other states. After months of engaging stakeholders, Oregon has posted its draft […]
We recently submitted public comments on Florida’s amendment to its Section 1115 waiver which has a medley of requests for the federal government to consider. On the plus side, the state is seeking to extend postpartum coverage from 60 days to 12 months (although it is unclear why they need a waiver). But on the […]
If you took cooking classes for more than two decades but still couldn’t boil water, wouldn’t you reconsider your lesson plan? Using section 1115 demonstrations, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can grant states waivers of federal Medicaid requirements, if and only if, the waivers enable the states to conduct health coverage experiments […]
It’s been seven months and change since the Biden Administration took office. What it found waiting for it on January 20 was not just a crisis of democracy and a global pandemic and a surge of unaccompanied children at the border, but also a large pile of policy intended to undercut the Administration’s ability to […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have reopened a 30-day public comment period for Tennessee’s controversial section 1115 waiver, which the Trump Administration approved in January 2021. While the waiver’s radical centerpiece converting the state’s federal Medicaid funding into a block grant has rightfully received the most attention, the waiver would also allow […]
