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		<title>An Update on Medicaid, Title X and Planned Parenthood</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This brief provides an update on Planned Parenthood closures and participation in the Title X program in the midst of substantial policy changes leading to decreased funding for Planned Parenthood including the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the withholding of federal Title X funding to Planned Parenthood clinics.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CMS Requires More Restrictive Definition of Medical Frailty in New Medicaid Work Requirements Rule</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On June 1, 2026, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an interim final rule on Medicaid work requirements that adopts a restrictive definition of medical frailty—differing from states’ early expectations. The more restrictive definition of medical frailty adopted by the Trump Administration will be challenging for states to implement and could lead to more people falling through the cracks and losing coverage.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Child Enrollment in Medicaid/CHIP Dropped Below Pre-Pandemic Levels for the First Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ In February 2026, there were 345,000 fewer children enrolled in Medicaid/the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) compared to before the start of the pandemic in February 2020, a 1% decline, according to the latest data from CMS.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law Medicaid Work Requirements: 1115-waivers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid Work Requirements]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[State-by-state information on Medicaid 1115 work requirement waivers.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law Medicaid Work Requirements: Related Resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[KFF resources on the Medicaid work requirements in the 2025 Reconcilation law. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law: Medicaid Work Requirements Implementation Questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A list of the implementation questions relating to the Medicaid work requirements in the 2025 Reconciliation law.  ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law: Medicaid Work Requirements</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmichaelp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[KFF's interactive tracks key data and policies that will affect how states implement Medicaid work requirements, which are required under the 2025 budget reconciliation law starting in January 2027. The tracker includes state-level data on Medicaid enrollment and renewal outcomes as well as current state enrollment and renewal policies. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law: Medicaid Work Requirements Data and Policies</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-state-national-data-and-policies/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-state-national-data-and-policies/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmichaelp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid Work Requirements]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Detailed state and national data related to the 2025 Reconciliation Law Medicaid Work Requirements]]></description>
		
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		<title>Medicaid Enrollment and Unwinding Tracker</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-enrollment-and-unwinding-tracker/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffpatrickd]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 21:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Uninsured]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This tracker presents the most recent Medicaid data on renewals and disenrollments available for each state as well as monthly enrollment data during the unwinding period. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Monthly Child Enrollment in Medicaid and CHIP</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffvannn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 15:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Total Monthly Medicaid &amp; CHIP Enrollment and Pre-ACA Enrollment</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffalannaw]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 14:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffnatalies]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 13:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A Closer Look at North Carolina’s Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law Medicaid Provisions and Other Changes Amid Medicaid Budget Shortfalls</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jada Raphael]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This policy watch provides initial insight into how North Carolina is preparing to implement certain Medicaid provisions of the 2025 reconciliation law and how other policy changes may affect coverage and access to care. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Medical Frailty Exemption from Medicaid Work Requirements: Key Issues to Watch for in Upcoming CMS Guidance</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffamayad]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This brief describes early state plans to operationalize the medical frailty exemption for Medicaid work requirements and identifies key issues and questions states are facing, some of which may be answered in forthcoming CMS guidance.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Status of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/status-of-state-medicaid-expansion-decisions/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmichaelp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 16:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This page displays an interactive map of the current status of state decisions on the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion. Additional Medicaid expansion resources are listed (with links) below the map.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Understanding Medicaid Cost Sharing and Policy Changes from the 2025 Reconciliation Law</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/understanding-medicaid-cost-sharing-and-policy-changes-from-the-2025-reconciliation-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health Costs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[State Health Policy and Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Access to Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chronic Diseases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cost Sharing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Utilization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Premiums]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This brief explains current Medicaid cost sharing rules and changes made to cost sharing rules by the 2025 reconciliation law, reports on cost sharing amounts states currently impose on ACA expansion adults, and highlights literature on the impact of cost sharing. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>State Health Coverage for Immigrants and Implications for Health Coverage and Care</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/state-health-coverage-for-immigrants-and-implications-for-health-coverage-and-care/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffakashp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 17:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigrant Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racial Equity and Health Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACA Marketplaces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Access to Care]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coverage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eligibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maternal and Child Health]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Noncitizen immigrants, particularly those who are undocumented, face significant barriers to accessing health coverage and care and are significantly more likely than citizens to be uninsured. This brief provides an overview of state health coverage programs for immigrants, including among states that have taken up options in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to expand coverage for lawfully present immigrants and/or established fully state-funded programs to fill gaps in coverage for immigrants.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Look at the High Unemployment Hardship Exception to Medicaid Work Requirements Based on Unemployment Data from February 2025 to January 2026</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/a-look-at-the-high-unemployment-hardship-exception-to-medicaid-work-requirements-based-on-unemployment-data-from-february-2025-to-january-2026/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffcleab]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 12:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Health Policy and Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[County-Level Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coverage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eligibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid Work Requirements]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the 39 states that are adopting or may adopt the high unemployment hardship exception, about 1.4 million or 7.5% of Medicaid expansion enrollees live in one of the 133 counties that currently meet the high-unemployment criteria.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CMS’ New Approach to Federal Medicaid Spending in Cases of Potential Fraud</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/cms-new-approach-to-federal-medicaid-spending-in-cases-of-potential-fraud/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffjessicam]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 15:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fraud, Waste and Abuse]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[CMS is taking a new approach to fraud that will rely more heavily on options to pause or withhold significant amounts of federal funding in cases of potential fraud, which could have broad implications for states and enrollees. This issue brief explains the new approach.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Medicaid Changes in House and Senate Reconciliation Bills Would Increase Costs for 1.3 Million Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-changes-in-house-reconciliation-bill-would-increase-costs-for-1-3-million-low-income-medicare-beneficiaries/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmaissm]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 20:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coverage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dual Eligible Individuals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eligibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enrollment]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[On May 22, the House passed a reconciliation bill, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which would partially pay to extend expiring tax cuts by cutting Medicaid. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the bill would reduce federal Medicaid spending by $793 billion over ten years and 10.3 million fewer people would be enrolled in Medicaid in 2034, including 1.3 million people with Medicare, otherwise known as “dual-eligible individuals”.]]></description>
		
		
		
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