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		<title>CMS Releases Guidance on 6-Month Medicaid Renewals for Expansion Adults</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tricia Brooks]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Guidance on implementing six-month renewals for the Medicaid adult expansion group, as required by H.R. 1 was sent to state Medicaid directors earlier today (March 6, 2026). The delayed guidance (which was due by December 31, 2025) has kept states waiting for key details that are needed to set state policy, make system changes, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Rural Health Transformation Fund: Political Rhetoric Meets Bipartisan Concern as the Program Moves Forward</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Searing]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration frequently highlights investments in rural health care. While the federal budget bill H.R. 1 (often referred to as the &#8220;One Big Beautiful Bill&#8221;) passed last year did establish the Rural Health Transformation Fund (RHTF) to inject much-needed capital into rural communities, the same legislation includes deep cuts to the Medicaid program—including billions of dollars [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Protected: Webinar: Multi-Year Continuous Eligibility: Implementation, Key Findings, Future Implications</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>CCF Welcomes Adriana Kohler to Our Team</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joan Alker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, CCF welcomed Adriana Kohler to our team. Many of us know Adriana from her years as one of our state Finish Line partners in Texas where she served as the Policy Director of Texans Care for Children for many years. We are thrilled that Adriana is joining us to work on a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CMS Weaponizes Fraud Against Medicaid in Minnesota: Part 2</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Schneider]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At a White House press conference last Wednesday, Vice President J.D. Vance, newly tasked with leading a war on fraud, announced that “we have decided to temporarily halt” $259 million in federal matching payments to the state of Minnesota due to fraud against its&#160; Medicaid program.&#160; He emphasized: “…we don’t want to do this. We [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wisconsin Passes 12-Month Postpartum Medicaid Extension, Leaving Arkansas as the Last State Without It</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melody Emenyonu]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[About a third of maternal deaths occur between one week and one year postpartum. The American Rescue Plan Act provided states with the option to extend postpartum Medicaid and CHIP coverage from 60 days to 12 months and the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 20223 made this option permanent. From 2021 to 2025, 48 states and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>New State-by-State Medicaid and CHIP Tracker Shows Declining Enrollment as H.R. 1 Cuts Loom</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aubrianna Osorio]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Georgetown CCF has been closely tracking Medicaid and CHIP enrollment periodically over the past decade, – most recently as states began “unwinding” continuous coverage protections put in place during the pandemic. Now, as states prepare to implement H.R.1, including mandatory work reporting requirements and more frequent renewals for people covered through Medicaid expansion, while mixed-status [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fact Checking Homeland Security Claims About Immigrants and Medicaid Coverage and Why U.S. Citizen Children Will Suffer Harsh Consequences</title>
		<link>https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/02/26/fact-checking-homeland-security-claims-about-immigrants-and-medicaid-coverage-and-why-u-s-citizen-children-will-suffer-the-harshest-consequences/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melody Emenyonu]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On February 17, 2026, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted a statement on X about Medicaid coverage for immigrants that is stunning when you consider how many inaccuracies are crammed into&#160;just four sentences. Here are five key inaccuracies in the X post. Mischaracterizing “non-citizen” households The DHS X post reproduces a KFF data graphic [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Federal Rural Health Transformation Fund:  “Likely to Treat Symptoms But Not Deliver a Cure”</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Searing]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The most recent annual analysis on rural health from the health care consulting company Chartis had some interesting insights on rural hospitals, rural health and the federal Rural Health Transformation Fund (RHTF), a part of the H.R. 1 budget bill passed by Congress last year. While the entire report is worth a read, here are some [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CMS Releases Long-Awaited EPSDT Behavioral Health Toolkit for States</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anne Dwyer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Say Ahhh! readers will recall that when we blogged about the behavioral health section of the Center for Medicare &#38; Medicaid Services (CMS) landmark 2024 EPSDT guidance, we noted that CMS had an additional EPSDT behavioral health resource in the works — an EPSDT Behavioral Health Services Toolkit. Now, over two years later, that toolkit [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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