It’s now been four corporate reporting quarters since the start of the PHE unwinding on April 1, 2023. During that time, net national Medicaid enrollment—the combination of disenrollments from redeterminations, re-enrollment by some of those terminated, and new enrollments—has fallen by 13.1 million, including 5.0 million children. Of the disenrollments, 70 percent have been for […]
Download the Full Report Here On March 9, 2024, President Biden signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (P.L. 118-42). The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (CAA 2024) includes a number of Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) provisions related to mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) care and coverage including provisions extending […]
The Medicaid Managed Care Rule published on May 10 has lots of moving parts. As my colleague Leo Cuello explains, the rule includes provisions to increase the transparency of state directed payments (SDPs). The rule also contains a number of other transparency requirements that are the focus of this blog, most of which are identical to those […]
By: Aubrianna Osorio, Emma Ford, Anne Dwyer, and Margaux Johnson-Green Research consistently shows that Medicaid coverage in childhood has long-term benefits, including supporting student success. New data on the share of children with Medicaid/CHIP coverage are now available for more than 7,000 school districts nationwide and show how important these coverage programs are to students across […]
Congress has been examining ways to address the ongoing problem of generic drug shortages, especially with cancer patients continuing to face severe shortages of widely used generic chemotherapy drugs. Both the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Finance Committee have held hearings on generic drug shortages, with the Senate Finance Committee also issuing […]
Earlier this year, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized two new regulations aimed at improving access to care for those enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) across delivery systems. Below is a compilation of all the resources we have published on these new rules. This list was last […]
