Medicaid
has transformed health care for low-income families and individuals, especially children, pregnant mothers, parents and children with disabilities and special health care needs.
New Medicaid State Planning Grants for Mobile Crisis Intervention Services
This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it awarded $15 million in planning grants to 20 state Medicaid agencies to support expanding access to community-based mobile crisis intervention services for Medicaid beneficiaries. As mentioned in our previous blog, the American Rescue Plan created a new state option for state Medicaid […]
Loss of Medicaid After the PHE Will Likely Exceed 15 Million Estimated by Urban
The Urban Institute recently released a new report projecting that Medicaid and CHIP will have provided access to health care (and peace of mind) for an additional 17 million children and adults by the end of 2021. The increase is largely due to the COVID-related requirement that states keep Medicaid enrollees continuously covered during the […]
CMS, FNS Announce Additional Demonstrations to Evaluate Impacts of Data Sharing
On Friday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) posted a Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS) Informational Bulletin to notify state Medicaid agencies of an additional demonstration to encourage and analyze interagency data sharing to help eligible students access free and reduced-price school meals. The new demonstration, issued by the U.S. Department […]
The Poorest Children Are The Ones That Lost Health Insurance During The Pandemic
While we won’t be able to do our in-depth analysis of children’s health coverage trends this fall due to problems collecting American Community Survey data during the pandemic, the Census Bureau did release a report on national trends in health insurance coverage in 2020 using the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement. Overall, […]
Medicaid Expansion Narrows Maternal Health Coverage Gaps, But Racial Disparities Persist
Introduction The United States is experiencing a maternal mortality crisis and has the highest maternal mortality rate of any industrialized country in the world.8 In 2019, more than 750 women died of maternal causes in the United States while pregnant or within 42 days after the end of pregnancy, data from the Centers for Disease […]
Federal and State Policymakers Must Address Alarmingly High Maternal Mortality Rates and Racial Disparities
The United States has an unacceptably high maternal mortality rate and it is getting worse. The latest data from the CDC shows that maternal mortality increased significantly between 2018 and 2019, topping out at the highest recorded rate since the agency began tracking the rate more than 30 years ago. A country’s maternal mortality rate […]
