Weekly updates

•Demonstration Facilitation Toolkit
•Congressional Budget Office Insurance Coverage Projections for 2023 to 2033
•Medicaid Leadership institute, Class of 2024
•State updates: AZ, IA, KY, MA, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, OR, PA & RI  

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Weekly updates

In This Week’s Update:
•Where we are on Unwinding
•Serving Justice-Involved Individuals Through 1115 Demonstration Evaluations
•Should the Federal Government Establish Minimum Standards for Marketplaces?
•School-Based Services in Medicaid
•State Updates: CA, CO, DE, IL, IN, KT, MI, MN, NH, NJ, NY, OR, PA, WA, WI

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In This Week’s Update:
• End of the Public Health Emergency
• Sequencing Communications to Encourage Coverage Transitions
• A Closer Look at Medicaid Call Center Options as the Unwinding Kicks Into High Gear
• State updates: AR, CO, IA, IN, MA, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NV, OR, PA, RI, VT & WA

Weekly updates

In This Week’s Update:
• States of Unwinding
• HHS’ New Website Launch
• Milbank Leadership Programs
• Access to Maternity Providers: Midwives and Birth Centers
• Adults Forgo Healthcare Because of Transportation Barriers
• State updates: CA, CO, GA, MD, MN, MS, NC, NJ, NY, OR, PA & WA

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In This Week’s Update:
• The Basic Health Program
• Medicaid Unwinding Estimated Coverage Losses
• Strategies for Providing Whole Child Care
• Regulatory-Palooza Week
• State updates: CA, CT, DC, ID, IN, KY, MA, MI, MN, NM, NY, OR, PA, VA & WA

Weekly updates

In This Week’s Update:
• Supporting Reentry for Justice-Involved Populations
• ACA’s Preventive Services Requirement
• Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters
• Final 2024 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters
• Attempts to Scam Medicaid Members Popping up Nationwide as Unwinding Commences
• Protect Medicaid 2023
• State updates: CO, DC, IA, IL, KY, ME, MI, MN, ND, NE, NM, NY, OR, RI, UT, WA & WV

Weekly updates

In This Week’s Update:
• Health Coverage for DACA Recipients
• Termination of the National Emergency Declaration
• Sustainable Financing Strategies to Support Community Investments by Health Plans and Hospitals
• Crossing the Bridge to the Marketplace
• Medicaid Stability is Critical to Nation’s Continuum of Health Insurance Options
• State updates: AZ, CA, CO, DE, ID, IL, KY, MA, MI, NJ, NM, NY & PA

Weekly updates

In This Week’s Update:
• Promoting Equity in Medicaid Managed Care
• Coverage of Preventive Services Without Cost-Sharing in Jeopardy
• HHS Reminds States of Civil Rights Obligations During Unwinding
• Black-White Disparities in Maternal Vulnerability and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes
• State updates: CA, ID, MD, MI, MN, MT, NH, NJ, NM, NY, SC, TX, VT & WA

Weekly updates

In This Week’s Update:
• Decision in ACA Preventive Services Case
• The Expanding Role of Medicaid in the Criminal-Legal System
• Resources to Support State Implementation of Renewal Mitigation Strategies
• Maryland’s Total Cost of Care Model
• State updates: AK, CT, FL, KY, MA, MI, NC, NJ, NV & NY

Weekly updates

In This Week’s Update:
• Happy Birthday ACA!
• New Resource to Advance Maternal Health Equity
• Inequities in Health Insurance Coverage and Access
• Creating Health System Accountability through Community Partnerships
• Preventive Services Use Among People With Private Insurance
• State updates: AZ, CA, CO, CT, KS, KY, LA, MD, NM, OK & RI

Weekly updates

In This Week’s Update:
• New SHVS Unwinding Resources
• Maternal Mortality Data
• Most Adults with Past-Due Medical Debt Owe Money to Hospitals
• Opportunities to Support Early Literacy Promotion in Pediatric Primary Care
• Oregon Health Authority’s Healthcare Market Oversight Program
• State updates: DC, IL, KS, ME, MN, MS, NC, OR & RI

Weekly updates

In This Week’s Update:
• Princeton Pulse Podcast
• Maintaining Access to Services After Transitioning from Medicaid
• What the Growing Medicaid Undercount Means for Data Users and Policymakers
• Accelerating Progress Toward Healthcare Equity
• Accelerating Progress Toward Healthcare Equity
• State updates: CA, CO, DE, IL, KS, MA, NC, NE, NY, OH, WI, WV & WY

Weekly updates

In This Week’s Update:
• State-by-State Unwinding Dates
• Medicaid Enrollment Growth: Who May Be at Risk
• O’Neil Institute Healthcare Litigation Tracker
• Unwinding Home and Community-Based Services PHE Flexibilities
• State updates: IA, IL, MA, MN, NC, NV, NY, PA, SC & VA

Weekly updates

In This Week’s Update:
• How SBMs and DOIs can prepare for unwinding
• SHVS on FCC Ruling
• Navigating Medicaid Unwinding Transitions to Private Health Insurance
• State updates: AL, CA, IA, ID, IL, MI, NJ, NV, OK & OR

Weekly updates

In This Week’s Update:
· Executive Order Promotes Community Engagement
· Strategies to Connect Children of Undocumented Status to Coverage
· Q&A: Actuarial Analysis of a Medicaid Palliative Care Benefit
· Catalog of Value-Based Initiatives for Rural Providers
· State updates: AK, CA, CO, FL, GA, IA, IL, MI, MT, NC, NY, RI, SC, TN, UT, VT & WA

Weekly updates

In This Week’s Update:
• SHVS on Medicaid Unwinding
• Medi-Cal Section 1115 demonstration
• CMS’s 2020 Rule on Medicaid ‘Continuous Coverage’ Is Blocked as to Additional Dual-Eligible Enrollees
• Remaining States Should Expand Medicaid to Maximize Coverage and Protect Against Funding Drop
• Is Carve-In Financing of Medicaid Behavioral Health Services Better than Carve-Out?
• State updates: AK, AZ, CA, CO, CT, KY, NC, ND, NV, NY, OK, OR, PA, VT, WA & WI

Weekly updates

In This Week’s Update:
• CMS Releases New Unwinding Guidance
• New SHVS Publications: Operationalizing Community Engagement
• New SHVS Unwinding Communications Resource Available: Video Message with Your State’s Branding
• Biden Administration Proposes New Rules to Expand Access to Birth Control Coverage Under the ACA
• State updates: CA, KS, MA, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NE, NH, NJ, OH & WI

Weekly updates

In This Week’s Update:
• Text Messaging Flexibility to Support Unwinding
• Section 1115 Demonstrations
• Can Employer-Sponsored Insurance Be Saved? A Review of Policy Options: Price Regulation
• State Medicaid Innovations to Support Home Visiting Services
• Strengthening Marketplace Network Rules for Essential Community Providers
• State updates: AL, CA, CO, IL, KS, MD, MI, ND, NM, NV, NY, OH, VA, WA, WI & WY

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In This Week’s Update:
• New SHVS unwinding materials
• Promising Practices to Foster Meaningful Health System and Community Partnerships
• Mothers’ Mental Health Challenges Predated the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Realizing the Promise of All-Payer Claims Databases
• State updates: AR, CO, MI, MN, NC, NE, NJ, OR, SC, SD, UT & WA

Weekly updates

In This Week’s Update:
• New “In Lieu Of” Services Guidance
• A Playbook for Implementing a State Cost Growth Target
• Millions of Uninsured People Can Get Free ACA Plans
• How Sharing Data Builds More Efficient and Effective Benefits Systems
• State updates: AZ, CA, DC, GA, KS, LA, MA, MN, ND, NE, NJ, NY, RI & WA

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In This Week’s Update:
• SHVS webinar: Unwinding Provisions in the Omnibus
• Medicaid Director Letter
• Medicaid Innovation Award: Coffee Chat with Kentucky and West Virginia
• New Report Highlights Gap in the No Surprises Act
• Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Adults Face Healthcare Access Challenges Related to Limited English Proficiency
• State updates: CO, MN, NJ, NM, NY, OK, SC, TN & VA

Weekly updates

In This Week’s Update:
• 2024 NBPP
• New Urban Institute Report Estimates Impact of PHE Expiration 
• State and Local Estimates of the Uninsured Population in the U.S. Using the Census Bureau’s 2021 American Community Survey
• Discussion with Medicaid Innovators
• State updates: CA, CO, MD, NC, NH, NM, NV & WA

Weekly updates

In This Week’s Update:
• Webinar: A Discussion with Medicaid Innovators
• Report: Number of Uninsured Children Stabilized and Improved During Pandemic 
• New Marketplace Enrollment Numbers
• Adults in Medicaid-Enrolled Families Unaware of Redeterminations
• The Erosion of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and Potential Policy Responses
• Reducing Racial Disparities in Childbirth-Related Outcomes Through Community Collaboration
• State updates: CO, MI, NC, NJ, NM, NY, OR, TN, TX & WA

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In This Week’s Update:
• Medicaid Expansion’s Fiscal Impact
• Essential Health Benefits Request for Information
• Sugary Beverage Taxes and Public Health
• The ACA’s Preventive Services Benefit is in Jeopardy: What Can States Do to Preserve Access?
• State updates: CA, CO, CT, DE, MI, NC, NE, NJ, NY, OK, OR & WA

Weekly updates

In This Week’s Update:
• Unwinding Deadline Request
• SHVS Resource Page
• Developing a Payment and Spending Strategy to Advance Health Equity: Checklist for Medicaid Decision-Makers
• 2022 March of Dimes Report Card
• Comparing Federal Government Surveys that Count the Uninsured: 2022
• State updates: AL, CA, CO, DC, IA, MN, NJ, NC, OK, OR, TX, VA & WI

Weekly updates

In This Week’s Update:
• New SHVS State Spotlight Series
• Continuity of Coverage Expert Perspective
• Improving Data to Advance Health Equity Solutions
• Equity Changemakers Institute
• Rural Health Equity Toolkit
• State updates: AR, CA, CO, MN, NY, PA, SC, SD & WI

Weekly updates

In This Week’s Update:
• OEP Kicks Off
• CMS Final Rule
• State-Based Strategies for Boosting Health Plan Enrollment
• The Institute for Medicaid Innovation 2022 Medicaid Managed Care Organization Survey
• Social Determinants of Health for Infants and Toddlers
• State updates: AL, AR, AZ, CA, IL, MI, MS, NJ, OR & SD

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In This Week’s Update:
• Marketplace Coverage
• Unwinding FAQ
• No Surprises Act Implementation
• OEP kicks off next week
• Birth Equity in Medicaid
• 50-State Medicaid Budget Survey Archives
• State updates: CA, GA, IL, ME, NJ, NV, NY, PA, TN & WI

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Weekly updates

In This Week’s Update:
• Maternal Health Compendium
• CMS Proposed Rule on Medicaid and CHIP E&E
• State Access to Behavioral Health Services
• Strategies in Behavioral Health Integration
• State updates: CO, DE, IL, KY, MD, MI, NE, NH, PA & SC

Weekly updates

In This Week’s Update:
• PHE Renewed
• “Family Glitch” Rule
• Screening for Social Needs in Healthcare Settings
• Families USA Launches New Center to Lower Costs
• Strengthening Oral Health in the U.S.
• State updates: AK, AZ, CA, KS, MD, MI, MN, NM, OR, VA, WI, & WV

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• SHVS webinar on E&E proposed rule
• Addressing Health-Related Social Needs Through Medicaid Managed Care
• Center for Health and Wellbeing Launches Princeton Pulse Podcast
• CMS Sets Parameters for Optional Health Home Benefit for Medically Complex Children
• State updates: IN, MI, MN, & more

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In This Week’s Update:
• Latest Medicaid and CHIP enrollment numbers
• National strategy on hunger, nutrition and health
• Robust, Diverse, and Resilient Behavioral Health Workforce in Massachusetts
• NAMD Federal Policy Brief: Behavioral Health Equity
• State updates: AL, KS, MA, MN, NE, NV, NJ, NM & OR

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CDC Data Shows More Than 80% of Pregnancy-Related Deaths are Preventable 
Health Insurance Coverage Estimates from the 2021 ACS and CPS
The Future of Aging Policy: A Snapshot of State Priorities
How Changing the Marketplace Coverage Benchmark Could Impact Affordability
State updates: AZ, MI, NC, NJ, NV, OH, OK, OR & RI

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In This Week’s Update:
• Summary of E&E Proposed Rule
• Advancing Oral Health Equity for Medicaid Populations
• Analysis of Recent National Trends in Medicaid and CHIP Enrollment
• State-Level Trends in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
• State updates: CA, KS, KY, MI, NM, NY, OK, OR & WV

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• Public Charge Rule and Preventive Services Decision
• Protecting Coverage for Postpartum Individuals
• Requesting an Extension of Nurse Aide Training
• Aligning in Crisis: Strategies & Tools to Leverage Federal Funding
• State Updates: DE, IN, ME, MN, NC, NJ, NY, OK, TN & WV

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•Enrollment and eligibility proposed rule
•Expanding Equitable Telehealth Access: Federal Funding Opportunities to Support Universal Broadband
•Assessing Physician Acceptance of Medicaid Patients Using State Health Compare
•State updates: AZ, CA, FL, IA, LA, MN, MO, NC, NE, NH, NJ, RI & WI

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• No Surprises Act Final Rule
• ASPE Projects Coverage Losses Post-PHE
• Lessons From the California Health Care Quality and Affordability Act
• States Take Charge of Healthcare Costs
• Unwinding the Medicaid Continuous Coverage Provision: Projected Enrollment Effects
• State updates: AL, CA, CO, CT, IN, MI, NV & WI