Reminder:
In December 2025, buried in highly technical guidance on state reporting for Medicaid + CHIP, Sec. Kennedy quietly DROPPED mandatory reporting of child and adolescent immunization rates for half the kids in the U.S.
A radical move away from transparency.
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Also Nebraska’s new Medicaid work requirement video gets things wrong like saying parents with kids under 14 may be exempt.
These parents ARE exempt.
New video for Medicaid enrollees in NE on work reporting requirements is low production value and doesn’t share contact info for help until minute 8.
Nebraska is going 1st to implement Medicaid work requirements on 5/1. Yikes.
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Helpful new report from @AARPpolicy on new Medicaid requirements from HR1, the Republican budget bill from last year.
22 states will be required to RAISE costs for Medicaid enrollees. 4 states will have to lower them.
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"Medicaid is the largest payer of opioid use disorder treatment, and in 2023 it covered nearly half of all non-elderly adults in the U.S. with opioid use disorder in 2023" #Medicaid #OUD #healthpolicy
My colleague Tanesha Mondestin blogs for Black Maternal Health Week.
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Medicaid expansion boosted access to opioid addiction treatment medication, study says stateline.org/2026/04/10/m...
The Trump Admin attack on Medicaid fraud primarily in blue states is nothing more than an effort to distract voters from Medicaid cuts and attack their political enemies.
The math Dr. Oz used in his official letter to NY was such garbage even he had to admit it.
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Kelly Whitener and I blog on a huge, looming disruption to newborns' access to care if birthright citizenship is struck down.
The Supreme Court’s Birthright Citizenship Decision Could Dramatically Impact Newborns’ Access to Health Care ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/04/10/t... via @GeorgetownCCF
Bipartisan concerns are growing about the impact of OBBA Medicaid cuts on rural hospitals. #MedicaidAwarenessMonth https://bit.ly/41mhADE
Check out how Medicaid helps people in your state. #MedicaidAwarenessMonth
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Every month is #MedicaidAwarenessMonth @GeorgetownCCF. Our series of fact sheets explains how Medicaid helps children, pregnant women, caregivers, people with disabilities, seniors, and families who otherwise could not afford health care.
Happening today at noon - interested members of the media please email Catherine.hope@georgetown.edu
After taking time to connect with the Pretti family and with their consent, we are honored to share that we have created the Alex Pretti Nursing Scholarship.
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Hats off to #ThePitt for depicting an all too common reason why there are uninsured kids in the U.S.
Most uninsured kids are eligible for Medicaid or CHIP but they’ve lost coverage due to red tape barriers.
The nation’s progress on this very issue is now at grave risk.
We’re holding our monthly press call for reporters on Monday 4/6 at noon ET. We will cover what’s hot with Medicaid, children’s health, and do some fact checking on the Administration’s narrative about alleged fraud.
Reporters should email Catherine.hope@georgetown.edu for details.
My latest blog with Adriana Kohler is here for on parents and Medicaid work requirements:
The bottom line - the vast majority of parents are exempt including anyone with a child under 14.
But there is a lack of awareness — and of course there are complexities.
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There are a few states that are planning to start in the next few months so it’s complicated. Nebraska and Montana for sure but there are a few others that are murky - I’ll post when we know more definitively. I’ve got a blog coming on these very issues.
Yes. The original version of HR1 had implementation date of after next Presidential election but the Freedom Caucus complained so it got moved up to after the midterms.
In most states they go into effect on January 1, 2027.
Nebraska is starting May 1, 2026.
A PSA that I’ll keep sending due to misinformation and confusion.
Medicaid work requirements are not in effect yet.
Even when they are all parents with children under 14 are EXEMPT.
Spread the word.
This is just such bad (or bad faith?) math by CMS
Calculating the total number of homecare recipients by adding the monthly enrollment numbers fundamentally misunderstands the concept of homecare and shows that nobody actually thought about the math before crying fraud
Must read on how Dr Oz's estimate of alleged Medicaid fraud in NY is likely vastly overstated due to a simple math error.
Scary that this is where the federal agency that runs a great deal of the US health care system is at.
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Not to mention setting millions of Americans on a path to becoming uninsured which means they are entirely knocked out of a health system for which having insurance is the price of admission.
This speaks to the folly of HR1 last year which made historic cuts of nearly $1 trillion to Medicaid the leanest part of our health care system while doing nothing to address the high costs of health care.
Graph showing lower health care spending between 2010-2024 compared to original projections.
H/T to @davidmwessel.bsky.social for flagging new @brookings.edu research from @davidmcutler.bsky.social & Lev Klarnet. One of the goals of the ACA was to help slow growth in health care costs systemwide. They find lower-than-projected costs between 2010-2024 (1/2): www.brookings.edu/articles/has...
