Tricia Brooks

Nov 13, 2024 | ccf.georgetown.edu | Tricia Brooks |Natalie Lawson

Youth transitioning out of foster care are at both a challenging and pivotal time of their lives. Having health coverage through Medicaid provides security and stability as they make the steep climb to adulthood, often on their own. The authors of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) took into account the needs of former foster youth and the fact they don’t have families to fall back on for help when they included a provision allowing former foster youth to continue their Medicaid coverage until age 26.

Oct 17, 2024 | ccf.georgetown.edu | Tricia Brooks

Last week CMS announced plans to replace the technology and processes used to coordinate eligibility and enrollment through electronic accounts between the federal marketplace (healthcare.gov) and states that use the federal platform. The account transfer (AT) process, although riddled with glitches, has been in place since the Affordable Care Act’s coverage expansions began in 2014.

Oct 3, 2024 | urban.org | Jennifer Haley |Eva Allen |Tricia Brooks |Genevieve Kenney

During the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), Congress enacted a continuous coverage requirement in Medicaid, prohibiting disenrollment for most enrollees during the pandemic. Starting in April 2023, states began reassessing eligibility of all Medicaid enrollees, including 42 million children.

Aug 29, 2024 | ccf.georgetown.edu | Tricia Brooks

CMS has released new guidance for states that are not yet done with the unwinding. Due to the unprecedented nature of the unwinding, –exacerbated by workforce challenges and resulting in an uneven and unsustainable renewal volume in many states–   CMS concludes that the unwinding constitutes an administrative emergency that justifies exceptions to the timely completion of Medicaid and CHIP renewals beyond the 14 months states were already given is justified.

Aug 23, 2024 | ccf.georgetown.edu | Tricia Brooks

More than 5 million children have lost Medicaid coverage since states began the process of unwinding the pandemic continuous coverage protection. And recently released data from the National Health Insurance Survey (NHIS) for the first quarter of 2024 adds to our concerns that children are losing access to the health care they need to succeed. NHIS shows that uninsurance among children increased by a full percentage point to 5.2% — that amounts to 800,000 children.