This week has been a busy one on Capitol Hill as it relates to congressional efforts on mental health. On Sunday, a bipartisan group of twenty Senators announced they had reached an agreement on a framework related to gun safety including investments in child and family mental health services. On Wednesday, the Senate Finance Committee […]
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 […]
As we’ve previously written about here on Say Ahhh!, the American Rescue Plan included a number of provisions providing new opportunities for state Medicaid programs including temporary funding to enhance, expand, and strengthen home and community-based services for individuals covered by Medicaid. Under a CMS announcement made last week, states now have an extra year […]
Since we debuted the Dashboard Library, we’ve been keeping our eyes on state Medicaid agency websites and are pleased to announce that we’ve discovered quite a few more. The dashboards we’ve added to the list vary widely in content and presentation style, ranging from slides to interactive workbooks. Unfortunately, none of the dashboards that we […]
On June 2, 2022, CCF submitted public comments to the Internal Revenue Service related to a proposed rule which would finally fix the “family glitch.” As my colleague Tricia Brooks recently explained, the family glitch makes many children and other dependents in families offered unaffordable employer-based family coverage ineligible for premium tax credits to purchase […]
CCF’s Aubrianna Osorio and Allie Corcoran are keeping tabs on child enrollment in Medicaid and CHIP during the pandemic period. Below is the latest – from February 2020 to January 2022 child enrollment has increased by 14.4 percent nationwide. A few things jumped out at me: As is common, we are probably seeing “welcome mat” […]
