Expanding immigrant healthcare coverage for noncitizen children can lead to a decrease in the children uninsurance rate without having a significant effect on employer-sponsored health plans, a Health...
Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) saw a boost in enrollment during the coronavirus pandemic, bringing the total number of insured individuals to over 80 million, HHS...
Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) can play a strong role in children’s mental and physical health following the coronavirus pandemic by introducing long-term...
Immigrant families who are in the process of getting their green cards or temporary visas continue to avoid using government-funded programs including public payer coverage due to the 2019 public...
Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enrollment increased through November 2020, as anticipated, Kaiser Family Foundation data note.
“Increases in enrollment reflect...
Congress passed a $1.9 trillion relief package to support the nation’s coronavirus pandemic response efforts and the law could have particular significance for Medicaid and CHIP programs.
The...
States may need to re-evaluate their Medicaid managed care organization payment rates as trends of increased enrollment and low care utilization continue into fiscal year 2021, according to a Kaiser...
CMS has released its Medicare reimbursement rate and official coverage strategy for the coronavirus vaccine when one is approved.
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States with lower incomes per capita often receive funding from higher income states through Medicaid and CHIP federal funding. But some low-income states without Medicaid expansion end up contributing...
The public charge rule, which allows for citizenship denial to certain groups of immigrants who use US safety-net programs, may have led to thousands of children being uninsured when the coronavirus...
Children’s health insurance coverage is not stable even under the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), a recent study published in Health Affairs discovered.
“The current...
Over 14 million workers in industries hit hard by coronavirus are eligible for Medicaid or subsidized healthcare insurance on the ACA marketplace if they become unemployed, regardless of whether they...
Waivers to Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) give state programs flexibility to better respond to COVID-19.
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Medicaid expansion is key to securing national access to care for the new coronavirus and the federal government can and should support state programs for increasing COVID-19 coverage, according...
The Supreme Court has approved the public charge rule, which denies immigrants green cards and visas if they have used or are expected in the future to use Medicaid or other public benefits.
The...
Even the promise of employer-sponsored insurance could not increase healthcare coverage for individuals facing increasingly high premiums, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation study.
The...
While HHS celebrated the lowest Medicare fee-for-service improper payment rates in nearly ten years, eligibility complexities and fraud have racked up false payments in Medicaid and the...
According to a study by the Georgetown Center for Children and Families, the number of uninsured children has increased by over 400,000 in a two year time-span and policymakers and researchers alike...
When the House Committee on Energy and Commerce brought in CMS Administrator Seema Verma to testify regarding the White House’s attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the hearing covered...
In 2018, 8.5 percent of the nation did not have health insurance coverage at any point during the year, the Census Bureau’s report revealed, arguably the first rise in the uninsurance rate since...
