Center for Children and Families

Report Examines Worsening Maternal Morbidity in Texas, How Improving Care Could Cut Medicaid Costs

There’s no doubt that the United States maternal health crisis is severe. The U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate ...
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Tracking Implementation of H.R. 1 Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements

The 2025 budget reconciliation bill (H.R. 1) requires states to implement work reporting requirements (WRRs) for Medicaid expansion adults, as well as adults covered by partial adult waiver expansions ...
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House Committee Report on Fraud Against Medicare and Medicaid: Oversight Done Wrong

On September 29, exactly five weeks before the mid-term elections, Republicans on the House Energy & Commerce Committee released a Majority Staff Report on fraud against Medicare and Medicaid. The ...
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Response to RFI on Policy Proposals to Improve Access, Quality and Affordability of Health Coverage for All

Georgetown University McCourt School’s Center for Children and Families submitted the following in response to Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden’s comprehensive Request for Information ...
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What do Results from First State to Impose Medicaid Work Mandate Reveal?

At a recent Medicaid Advisory Committee meeting the state of Nebraska, the first in the nation to implement what will soon be ...
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New Policies Pose Risks to Health of Lawfully Present Immigrant Families and Children, Including U.S. Citizen Children

Several policy changes taking effect this fall will negatively impact immigrants and mixed-status families. As my colleague ...
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Census Bureau Releases Some New Data on Child Uninsured Rate, but Questions Remain

This week the U.S. Census Bureau released the Current Population Survey (CPS) Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) data, which examine poverty, income, health insurance and other trends for ...
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Rural Communities at Greater Risk of Harmful Impacts from New Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements

In 2025, Congress passed H.R. 1, legislation 1 which requires work reporting requirements as a condition of Medicaid eligibility in the 41 states, including Washington, D.C., that have expanded ...
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States are Sending Initial Outreach Notices about Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements. What Do They Look Like?

With Medicaid work reporting requirements just a few months away, states are scrambling to make complex changes to their eligibility and enrollment systems and processes. States must also do targeted ...
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Almost All Custodial Parents, Caretaker Relatives Should Not be Impacted by Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements in 28 States

As states rush to implement complex new work reporting requirement provisions before January 2027, the new Interim Final Rule (IFR) released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has ...
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New Executive Order Undermines Child Health

On August 10, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at making major changes to federal vaccine policy. Among several other actions, this order would make major revisions to the ...