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		<title>New Policy Brief: Rural Communities at Greater Risk of Harmful Impacts from New Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements</title>
		<link>https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/09/14/new-policy-brief-rural-communities-at-greater-risk-of-harmful-impacts-from-new-medicaid-work-reporting-requirements/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As the nation nears full implementation of the Medicaid work reporting requirements Congress enacted in 2025 in H.R. 1, Joan Alker and I took an in-depth look at how these new paperwork requirements to sign-up for and keep Medicaid health coverage will affect residents of rural areas and small towns. Our previous research has shown [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rural Communities at Greater Risk of Harmful Impacts from New Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements </title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Searing]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 2025, Congress passed H.R. 1, legislation which requires work reporting requirements as a condition of Medicaid eligibility in the 41 states, including Washington, D.C., that have expanded coverage to most low-income adults under the Affordable Care Act. (These mandated reporting requirements also apply in at least two non-expansion states, Wisconsin and Georgia, that cover [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CCF Comments on CMS Proposed Provider Tax Rule</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families submitted the following comments to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) regarding CMS’s proposed rule to amend the Indirect Hold Harmless Threshold of Health Care-Related Taxes. Read the Comments.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>States are Sending Initial Outreach Notices about Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements. What Do They Look Like?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melody Emenyonu]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 outreach to communicate new work reporting requirements (WRRs) to affected Medicaid expansion adults and new applicants. Many states launched websites this summer informing enrollees about [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Proposed Head Start Rule Would Further Undermine Child and Family Health </title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elisabeth Wright Burak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Head Start, a federal program that supports young children in low-income families, is headlining news in the early childhood policy and health worlds. Early last month, the Trump Administration released a monumental proposal to alter the program’s framework. Head Start is an essential investment in children’s wellbeing that works alongside Medicaid in child care centers, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Webinar: Medicaid Financing (Part 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Download the Audio Transcript In June, we hosted a&#160;webinar&#160;on the basics of Medicaid financing, including how the federal-state partnership works, how federal funding is mandatory and not subject to annual appropriations, and how states finance their share of Medicaid costs. On September 10&#160;at 1 p.m. ET, we took a closer look&#160;at&#160;H.R. 1&#8217;s&#160;restrictions on provider taxes&#160;and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Right Wing “Data” Arguing for Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements is Fatally Flawed</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joan Alker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We don’t usually write a blog like this that dissects the flawed methodology of the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) – a right-wing group that is well known for promoting work reporting requirements at the state and federal level – as well as cuts to Medicaid and the safety net more broadly. FGA’s own annual [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Access to Maternity Care in Rural Areas Likely to Get Worse Due to Medicaid Cuts </title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Searing]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As part of CCF’s Rural Health Project, we continue to track the important role Medicaid plays in rural America. A recent research paper on hospitals and maternity care has some important insights, especially for parents in rural areas and small towns. KFF researchers found that 1 in 3 hospitals providing inpatient maternity care to Medicaid [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Maternity Care Billing Changes Begin in 2027 with Potential for Better Transparency and Payments Across the Continuum of Care</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elisabeth Wright Burak]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[As readers of Say Ahhh! know, 2027 will bring a host of unprecedented Medicaid changes, including work reporting requirements. One less prominent change ahead is adoption of new maternity care codes for insurance payers. Adopting new codes for maternity care adds to the long list of Medicaid agency to-dos, but remains critical for understanding and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Are Parents Impacted By Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joan Alker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Overview Starting January 2027, H.R. 1 requires every state that has expanded Medicaid to low-income adults – whether through the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion or a Section 1115(a)(2) waiver – to implement work reporting requirements (WRRs). New WRR mandates affect those enrolled in the Medicaid expansion category – coverage for adults with income up [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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