All things Medicaid financing, regulation and legislation.
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What to Expect From States When They’re Expecting Big Changes Due to HR 1
The passage of the recently enacted tax and budget law (HR1) will have major implications for state budgets, but the impact will be disproportionate. For example, Medicaid, expansion states (plus Wisconsin and Georgia) will be required to implement work requirements, increasing administrative costs while putting up barriers to enrollment and retention. Other states will be…
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Trump Administration Blocks States from Keeping Babies and Toddlers Connected to Health Coverage
On Sunday, the Administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Dr. Mehmet Oz, appeared on Face the Nation. He was pressed repeatedly on Medicaid cuts by Host Margaret Brennan and responded by emphasizing the need for Medicaid to protect young children, paraphrasing the late Senator Hubert Humphrey in noting that any…
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Webinar: Budget Reconciliation (HR1) Medicaid and Marketplace Provisions
In Partnership with Monday, July 28, 2025 the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy Center for Children and Families (CCF) and Center on Health Insurance Reforms (CHIR) held a joint webinar about the Medicaid and Marketplace provisions of the new budget reconciliation law (HR1). Experts at CCF and CHIR explained the provisions of the…
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Fraud and Abuse Against Medicaid: The Truth About the Budget Reconciliation Law
After the House passed its version of what was then known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” we examined Speaker Johnson’s assertion that the House had not cut Medicaid but had instead targeted waste, fraud, and abuse in the program. We reported that just seven of the 24 Medicaid provisions in the bill truly…
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Where Interests Conflict: Medicaid Managed Care Meets Work Reporting Requirements
Q2 ended on June 30, and the earnings calls have started. The first of the “Big Five” Medicaid managed care companies out of the gate was Elevance Health. The financial analysts on last week’s call had a number of questions relating to the Medicaid provisions of the Budget Reconciliation Law (BRL) P.L. 119-21, that create…