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New Federal Guidance on Monitoring and Evaluation of Work Requirements and Other Coverage Demonstrations: What Does It Mean for...

Introduction - In March 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued detailed guidance for states on the monitoring and evaluation of “eligibility and coverage” Section 1115 Medicaid demonstrations. The...more

Faces of MassHealth: Portrait of a Diverse Population

Serving over 1.8 million Massachusetts residents, MassHealth provides access to healthcare services for people of varying ages and life circumstances across the Commonwealth. These services improve enrollees’ health and...more

Enhancing Access to Family Planning Services in Medicaid: A Toolkit for States

Medicaid is the primary source of family planning coverage in the United States, accounting for 75 percent of total public expenditures for family planning services; Title X and state and local governments also play an...more

Monitoring and Evaluating Work and Community Engagement Requirements in Medicaid: Data Assets, Infrastructure and Other...

Under Section 1115 of the Social Security Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) is permitted to waive certain federal Medicaid requirements to allow a state to undertake an experimental, pilot or demonstration...more

Coverage Loss Projections Released for Michigan Medicaid Work Rules

New estimates from Manatt Health indicate that Michigan’s Medicaid work requirement, scheduled to take effect January 1, 2020, could cause up to 27% of the state’s Medicaid expansion population to lose coverage within a...more

Potential Enrollment Impacts of Michigan’s Medicaid Work Requirement

To date, Section 1115 waivers that condition Medicaid eligibility on beneficiaries’ meeting work and community engagement (CE) requirements have been approved by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for eight...more

Quantitative Evaluation of a Targeted Medicaid Buy-In for New Mexico

New Mexico, similar to a number of other states, is exploring a Medicaid buy-in product as part of a broader strategy to expand coverage and affordability of health insurance for residents. Medicaid buy-ins allow people above...more

A Promising Strategy for an Affordable Medicaid Buy-In Option in Colorado

In order to address rising costs and continued uncertainty in the individual insurance market, states are beginning to explore offering alternative coverage options to residents in need of premium and cost-sharing relief. One...more

Public Charge Proposed Rule: Hospital Medicaid Payments at Risk

Under long-standing immigration law and guidance, individuals who are likely to become a “public charge”—or likely to rely on the government for financial support—can be denied admission to the United States or, if they are...more

Medicaid Payments at Risk for Hospitals Under the Public Charge Proposed Rule

Under long-standing immigration law and guidance, individuals who are likely to become a “public charge”—or likely to rely on the government for financial support—can be denied admission to the U.S. or, if they are already in...more

Addressing Major Drivers of MassHealth Per-Enrollee Spending Growth

The Massachusetts Medicaid program, MassHealth, plays a critical role as a source of health insurance coverage in Massachusetts. It covers a broad range of residents of the commonwealth, including vulnerable populations such...more

Arkansas’s Medicaid Work Requirement Challenged as Thousands Lose Coverage

During the first half of 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) granted four states—Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky and New Hampshire—Section 1115 waivers permitting them to condition Medicaid coverage for...more

The Promise of All-Payer Claims Databases

All-Payer Claims Databases (APCDs) are some of our nation’s most powerful healthcare data assets, yet information about what they are, the populations and the types of data they include, and how they can be effectively...more

7/24/2018  /  Databases , Health Care Providers

New Analyses Find Montana Medicaid Expansion Saving Millions of Dollars, Helping Thousands Access Preventive Care - Number of...

Bozeman, Mont. – According to two independent analyses released today, Montana’s 2015 bipartisan Medicaid legislation has saved more than $36 million in the state’s budget and helped more than 65,000 adults access preventive...more

Medicaid: Linchpin in State Strategies to Address Opioid Epidemic

The nation’s opioid epidemic claimed more than 42,000 lives in 2016, and more than 2 million people in the United States have an opioid use disorder (OUD). Yet only 1 in 5 people suffering from an OUD receive treatment. The...more

Estimated Budget Impacts of Expanding MaineCare - Prepared for the Maine Health Access Foundation

In November 2017, Maine voters approved a referendum to implement expansion of MaineCare under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to adults with incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL). As Maine’s legislature...more

Update: State Policy and Budget Impacts of New Graham-Cassidy Repeal and Replace Proposal

This brief provides an overview of the proposal released on September 13th by Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA)—along with Senators Dean Heller (R-NV) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) and former Senator Rick...more

Manatt on Health: August 2017

Next Steps on Healthcare Reform - Though President Trump has continued to call for action on repeal and replace in the wake of the Senate’s failed vote at the end of July, congressional Republicans have been fairly muted...more

BCRA Medicaid Provisions: Analysis of Impact on New York

In a new analysis prepared for the Coalition of New York State Public Health Plans (PHP Coalition), Manatt Health projects that if the current healthcare bill in the U.S. Senate—the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA)—is...more

Establishing a Medicaid Per Capita Cap: Implications for California - Presentation

Both the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA) and the Senate’s draft Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) of 2017 propose major changes to Medicaid’s financing structure. These include caps on federal funding for...more

Medicaid Edition: Establishing a Medicaid Per Capita Cap: Implications for California

Both the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA) and the Senate’s draft Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) of 2017 propose major changes to Medicaid’s financing structure. These include caps on federal funding for...more

Manatt on Health: July 2017

BCRA Implications: Affordability of Coverage - In making the case for repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the president and congressional leadership have cited “rising premiums,” “unaffordable...more

Impact on Montana of the AHCA’s Medicaid Provisions

Overview of Findings - The Stakes for Montana - ..Montana is expected to lose $4.8 billion in federal Medicaid funds between federal FY* 2020 and 2026 due to the AHCA’s elimination of enhanced match for expansion and...more

Impact on Montana of Medicaid Provisions in the BCRA (June 26 Discussion Draft): Preliminary Analysis

Overview of Findings - The Stakes for Montana - ..Medicaid covers one in four people in Montana—more than 216,000 individuals, nearly half of whom are children. ..Under the Senate’s proposed Better Care...more

Manatt on Medicaid: The Senate’s New Per Capita Cap Redistribution Policy

On June 22, Senate leadership released its proposed substitute for the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA), the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 (BCRA), as a discussion draft. Like the House-passed AHCA, the...more

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