More Children Enrolled in ACA Marketplace Coverage in 2022, But Marketplaces Still Remain Modest Source of Health Coverage for Children

Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) currently cover more than 40 million children.  In comparison, relatively few children rely on the marketplaces for their health coverage.  But new data released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) show 1.3 million children were enrolled in marketplace plans during the 2022 Marketplace Open […]

Aubrianna Osorio

Lessons from the Pandemic: Children’s Coverage Improvements

As readers of SayAhhh! know, Medicaid and CHIP enrollment is at an all-time high with close to 86 million people – covering half of the country’s children. Children and adults on Medicaid are protected by the continuous coverage provision including in the Families First Act (link to explainer) that prevents states from disenrolling anyone involuntarily. […]

Joan Alker

New Florida Law Requires Stratified Performance Measure Data for Medicaid Managed Care

By Anne Swerlick, Senior Policy Analyst, Florida Policy Institute Experts agree that to reduce health disparities, you first need to know where they exist. The collection of health plan performance measure data, such as timely prenatal care and well-child check-ups, broken down by demographic factors like race and ethnicity is essential for developing targeted health […]

Medicaid Managed Care Compliance Tools: Another ‘Pay-For’

Discussions have begun on the possibility of enacting a scaled-down version of the Build Back Better legislation. Any agreement that includes new federal spending will also require pay-fors (a/k/a offsets) either in the form of spending reductions or tax increases, or both.  In Medicaid, responsible pay-fors—i.e., policy changes that the Congressional Budget Office will score […]

Andy Schneider
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