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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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		<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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		<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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		<title>Medicaid Managed Care: The Big Five in Q2 2026</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Schneider]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[The “Big Five” have announced their results for the calendar quarter ending June 30. They are, of course, the five publicly-traded companies with the largest presence in the Medicaid managed care market, together accounting for about half of all Medicaid enrollees: Centene Corporation, CVS Health/Aetna, Elevance Health, Molina Healthcare, and UnitedHealth Group. The Medicaid market [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Missouri Voters Reject Attempts to Limit Ballot Measures Affecting Issues Like Medicaid Expansion</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Searing]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[This week, voters in Missouri soundly rejected two state constitutional amendment ballot measures proposed by the Legislature that had implications for issues such as Medicaid expansion and other health policy issues.&#160;Proposed Amendment 4 (defeated 80% to 20%) would have required future proposed constitutional amendments in Missouri to achieve an individual majority in every congressional district [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Testimony Presented at U.S. Senate Budget Committee &#8220;Medicaid the Reality&#8221; Hearing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Andy Schneider, J.D., Research Professor of the Practice, Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy Center for Children and Families, presented this testimony to the United States Senate Committee on Budget on August 4, 2026.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Early Childhood Educators Still Need Medicaid – Now More than Ever</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elisabeth Wright Burak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our brief on the critical role Medicaid plays for the early childhood education workforce has been re-published with new 2024 data, resources, and implications from the past year of federal actions, with the help of our partners, the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CCF Comments on Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements Interim Final Rule</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:49:48 +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) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) regarding CMS’s Interim Final Rule (IFR) implementing H.R. 1-mandated Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements (WRRs). Read the Comments.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CCF Submits Comments on Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements Interim Final Rule</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joan Alker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today, CCF submitted public comments on CMS’s Interim Final Rule (IFR) implementing H.R. 1-mandated Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements (WRRs). As we’ve written about time and time again, WRR policies are harmful, create unnecessary barriers to coverage, and will result in coverage losses without actually supporting work. Nonetheless, H.R. 1 has required most states to impose [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Change to Census Data Processing Methods Threatens Health Policy Research and Federal Data Systems</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aubrianna Osorio]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On June 4, 2026, the Commerce Department issued Department Administrative Order (DAO) 216-26, Disclosure Avoidance for Statistical Products, which bans a class of privacy techniques called “noise infusion” in all data products coming out of the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). This order, which was made effective immediately without opportunity for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Weaponizing Fraud Against Medicaid in California and Minnesota: Another Quarter, Another Round of Deferrals</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Schneider]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At a July 21 press conference, CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz announced that his agency was deferring payment of $1.1 billion in federal Medicaid matching funds to California and Minnesota “pending review of high-risk claims in crackdown on fraud.”&#160;The amount of the California deferral was $867.5 million; the Minnesota deferral, $199.0 million. CMS has previously taken [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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