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.
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 ]
Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) re-approved the Kentucky HEALTH Medicaid Section 1115 application waiver, which imposes harmful changes to Medicaid such as a work requirements. [ Blog ]
Utah, Nebraska and Idaho are the three most obvious illustrations of this phenomenon. [ Blog ]
Expansion of 'public charge' would incite a public health crisis and worsen the HIV/AIDS epidemic by undermining the ability of immigrants living with HIV/AIDS meet their health care needs. [ Blog ]
In the past week we have seen Republican leaders such as the President and Senate Majority Leader along with many House and Senate candidates take to the media to try to persuade the public that they will protect people with pre-existing conditions. [ Blog ]
Latinx advocates have been leaders and partners in the strong health advocacy work across the country. In Virginia, advocates played a key role in the recent Medicaid expansion victory. [ Blog ]
This is the first of two blogs on Integrated Care for Kids (InCK). Stay tuned for our upcoming blog on leveraging InCK for substance use prevention. [ Blog ]
Some children will show up nervous, some will show up excited and others will show up disappointed that summer is over. But, to us, the most important question is, will they show up insured? [ Blog ]
A new report officially confirms all suspicions about whether Medicaid work requirements lead to coverage losses. Recently, the state of Arkansas, which began implementing its work requirement program, Arkansas Works, in June, reported that almost 7,50... [ Blog ]
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 ]
This fact sheet explains how block grants and per capita caps results in fewer people being able access to Medicaid coverage that meets their needs. [ Publication ]
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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