On August 29, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a Center for Medicaid & Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Services (CMCS) Informational Bulletin (CIB) and an accompanying slide deck to...more
On August 19, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS) Informational Bulletin (CIB) and an accompanying slide deck reminding states of their obligation to...more
This program is part one of Manatt’s New Federal Rules on Medicaid Access and Managed Care webinar series.
After releasing sweeping proposed rules on Medicaid access and managed care in spring 2023, the Centers for...more
Introduction -
Many states are actively working to make changes to their systems to enable ex parte renewals at the individual level and implement mitigation strategies to ensure eligible Medicaid and Children’s Health...more
Five months into the unwinding of the federal Medicaid continuous coverage requirement, states continue to work through an unprecedented volume of eligibility and enrollment actions, while also contending with growing...more
On Thursday, April 27, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released two highly anticipated proposed rules... Together, these would reshape the federal regulatory landscape for Medicaid and the Children’s Health...more
6/9/2023
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Editor’s Note: In a new expert perspective prepared for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies program, reproduced below, Manatt Health outlines the time-limited targeted enrollment...more
6/21/2022
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The crisis in immigrant health coverage has been both highlighted and exacerbated by the recent pandemic. COVID-19 has taken a heavy toll on immigrants, who are disproportionately frontline/service workers, making them...more
Editor’s Note: In a new issue brief for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies program, summarized below, Manatt Health explores impediments and accelerants to advancing health equity as states...more
12/15/2020
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In light of recent postal delays and housing displacements caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the related economic crisis and a wave of natural disasters across the country, state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance...more
9/30/2020
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The Big Picture -
On Sunday, March 22, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a suite of tools to help state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) agencies respond to the COVID-19...more
Children with special healthcare needs are children who have, or are at increased risk of having, a chronic physical, developmental, behavioral or emotional condition and who also require health and related services of a type...more
Medicaid covers about half of all children with special healthcare needs in the U.S., playing a central role in addressing the complex physical and behavioral challenges of this particularly vulnerable population. Although...more