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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>
		<link>https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/08/31/maternity-care-billing-changes-begin-in-2027-with-potential-for-better-transparency-and-payments-across-the-continuum-of-care/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elisabeth Wright Burak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<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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		<title>New CDC Data Shows Increase in Vaccine Exemptions and Less Vaccine Coverage Nationally</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hannah Green]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On the heels of President Trump’s executive order directing changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released updated data for the 2025-2026 school year showing a decrease in coverage on all vaccines for incoming kindergartners. Specifically, vaccination rates to protect against diseases such as measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>H.R. 1 Readiness Tracker Update: Strain Is Building Before the Work Reporting Requirements Clock Starts</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[CCFadmin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As states prepare to implement work reporting requirements, we are closely monitoring Medicaid and CHIP performance indicators on our H.R. 1 tracker. The latest Q1 2026 data show the status of state eligibility systems and processes right before most states start notifying enrollees about the requirements. The short answer: already strained and getting worse. Renewals [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Uninsured Infants and Toddlers Now Above 5% Nationally</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elisabeth Wright Burak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What happens when children don’t have health insurance? Their families are exposed to greater financial risk if an accident or asthma attack puts their child in the emergency room. They are less likely to get regular check-ups and health services to keep them developmentally on track. For infants and toddlers, missing regular check-ups risks leaving [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>“Data Privacy” Concerns Could Mean Less Race and Ethnicity Data from the Census Bureau</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aubrianna Osorio]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I wrote that new Commerce Department restrictions on the Census Bureau’s use of a group of data privacy methods called noise infusion could lead to less of the critical data, such as from the American Community Survey (ACS), that makes health policy research and analysis possible. But while the ban on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Webinar: Medicaid Connections: Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs: Health &#038; Justice</title>
		<link>https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/08/19/webinar-medicaid-connections-children-and-youth-with-special-health-care-needs-health-justice/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[CCFadmin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Download the Audio Transcript One in five children under age 18 have special health care needs, representing 15 million children from birth to 21. Children with special health care needs (CSHCN) include those who have chronic physical, developmental, or behavioral health needs that require services of a type or amount beyond that required by children [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Health Coverage Trends for Infants and Toddlers Under Age 3</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elisabeth Wright Burak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Key Findings Methodology Data Sources This brief from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families (CCF) analyzes data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) for 2015-2024. Because of differences in sample size and data processing, the estimates published here may differ from estimates produced using other [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Almost All Custodial Parents, Caretaker Relatives Should Not be Impacted by Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements in 28 States</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joan Alker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 caused massive confusion. However, the IFR made important clarifications about which adults are not subject to work reporting requirements (WRRs), are excluded from WRRs, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>New Executive Order Undermines Child Health</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hannah Green]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 childhood vaccination schedule, direct care providers to administer monovalent vaccines as soon as they are available (starting with splitting up the MMR (measles, mumps, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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