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CCF Researchers to Track the Impact of Upcoming Medicaid Changes on Real People in Real Time

Georgetown University McCourt’s Center for Children and Families (CCF) is launching a one-year research study to learn how new Medicaid work reporting requirements and six-month renewal mandates under ...
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How are States Handling Work Reporting Requirements?

Georgetown McCourt’s Center for Children and Families (CCF) is tracking the implementation of Medicaid work reporting requirements (WRRs) across states and their impact on families with low incomes.
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Tracking Implementation of H.R. 1 Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements

The 2025 budget reconciliation bill (H.R. 1) requires states to implement work reporting requirements (WRRs) for Medicaid expansion adults, as well as adults covered by partial adult waiver expansions ...
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Medicaid Connections: Improving Health Justice for Immigrants

Download the Audio Transcript Despite making vital contributions to their communities, immigrants face challenges in access to health coverage and care. In October’s Medicaid Connections webinar, we ...
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CCF Comments on Census Proposed Criteria and Regulations

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 Commerce regarding the Proposed ...
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Census Bureau Releases Some New Data on Child Uninsured Rate, but Questions Remain

This week the U.S. Census Bureau released the Current Population Survey (CPS) Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) data, which examine poverty, income, health insurance and other trends for ...
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Rural Communities at Greater Risk of Harmful Impacts from New Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements

In 2025, Congress passed H.R. 1, legislation 1 which requires work reporting requirements as a condition of Medicaid eligibility in the 41 states, including Washington, D.C., that have expanded ...
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States are Sending Initial Outreach Notices about Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements. What Do They Look Like?

With Medicaid work reporting requirements just a few months away, states are scrambling to make complex changes to their eligibility and enrollment systems and processes. States must also do targeted ...
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New CDC Data Shows Increase in Vaccine Exemptions and Less Vaccine Coverage Nationally

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 ...
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Webinar: Medicaid Connections: Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs: Health & Justice

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 ...
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New Executive Order Undermines Child Health

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 ...
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Weaponizing Fraud Against Medicaid in California and Minnesota: Another Quarter, Another Round of Deferrals

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 ...