Medicaid provides vital health care coverage for children, seniors, people living with disabilities, and low-income adults. The Medicaid Team works to protect, strengthen and expand Medicaid in states across the country so it best serves our most vulnerable.
During our recent visit to Montgomery, Alabama, we had the opportunity to confront our nation’s history of slavery, mass incarceration and racism, while also having our faith in our democracy elevated by witnessing energetically engaged consumer advocacy. [ Blog ]
As we continue to celebrate Medicaid Awareness Month –an initiative led by the Protect Our Care -- to highlight the value of Medicaid, we turn our attention to the vital role of Medicaid for rural communities. [ Blog ]
Today, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved a proposal from Utah that imposes harmful and unprecedented restrictions on the Medicaid expansion program that Utah voters approved last November. [ Blog ]
As of March 27, 2019, Medicaid work reporting requirements were struck down in both states in the cases of Stewart v. Azar and Gresham v. Azar and, therefore, will be halted in Arkansas and won’t be implemented in Kentucky. [ Blog ]
In 2014, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a state Medicaid director letter that gives states the ability to allow local education agencies (LEAs) to expand their school-based Medicaid programs [ Blog ]
In February, North Carolina received CMS approval to expand Medicaid school-based services, creating a new opportunity to support both school based providers like Nurse Smith and expand health services. [ Blog ]
The newly-released 2020 budget from President Trump proposes policies and significant cuts would make health care harder to access and afford. Not only that, but they are policies that broad swaths of the American people have already opposed. [ Blog ]
The hits keep on coming! A new survey of Montana Medicaid expansion enrollees confirms that Medicaid expansion dramatically improves access to health care, as well as overall health. [ Blog ]
Statement of Dara Taylor, Community Catalyst’s Director of Consumer Assistance, regarding the introduction of the Marketing and Outreach Restoration to Empower (MORE) Health Education Act. [ Press Release ]
This week state legislators across the country are engaging in an annual week of action to lift up policies that promote economic opportunity and security for all families. [ Blog ]
Several states are in the beginning stages of allowing their Medicaid program to deliver care to patients in ways that address their health-related social needs. [ Blog ]
Immigrant families remain the target of unjust policies that threaten their access to health care services and increase the fear of family separation. One of these latest attacks is the proposed changes to the public charge policy. [ Blog ]
Community Catalyst comments in response to proposed changes to the Medicaid and CHIP managed care rules. [ Comment Letter ]
Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation Comments to CMS on the Massachusetts Medicare-Medicaid Integration Demonstration: Duals Demonstration 2.0 [ Comment Letter ]
A proposed rule, published in the Federal Register on October 10, 2018, makes several significant changes to the criteria used to determine whether an individual is likely to become a public charge. [ Publication ]
Stories of consumers with substance use disorders/and or mental illness can be an effective tool to push back against work requirements in Medicaid, which create barriers to essential services. [ Publication ]
This brief provides an overview of Medicaid 1115 waivers as one innovative approach to improving the oral health care delivery system and moving toward oral health equity. [ Publication ]
A one-pager for state policymakers on why Medicaid work requirements would be harmful and costly in their state [ Publication ]
An analysis of the incompatibility of work requirements with income eligibility levels in Medicaid non-expansion states. [ Publication ]
Community Catalyst comment letter on Wisconsin Medicaid’s proposed amendment to its Section 1115 waiver, the BadgerCare Reform Demonstration project. [ Publication ]
Sign-on letter of organizations strongly urging the Energy and Commerce Committee to reject H.R. 1394, which removes the federal assurance of non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) under Medicaid. [ Comment Letter ]
The GOP repeal bill, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), proposes an approach that would result in increases in the uninsured for all ages, forcing states to ration care to children and their families. [ Publication ]
This issue brief examines the harmful effects on Long Term Services and Supports of House Republican proposals to fundamentally alter the financing of the Medicaid program from a federal-state partnership to a per capita cap program. [ Publication ]
This fact sheet discusses the importance of Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in providing dental coverage and oral health services. [ Resource ]
Community Catalyst works with advocates in states that need to close the Medicaid coverage gap. With our support, advocates in Pennsylvania, Montana, Alaska and Louisiana have successfully closed the gap, bringing health and economic security to over one million low-income uninsured adults and cutting the number of uninsured adults in the coverage gap by 25 percent nationwide.
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