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A Mid-Year State Medicaid Budget Update for FY 2012 & A Look Forward to FY 2013 This report, based on structured discussions with leading Medicaid directors, builds on findings from the most recent comprehensive 50-state Medicaid budget survey. Survey, Briefing Examine the Latest Data On Medicaid And CHIP Enrollment and Eligibility Policies in the 50 States and D.C. A 50-state survey finds that despite state fiscal challenges, Medicaid and CHIP eligibility remained stable during 2011, and 29 states made program improvements, often using technology to boost efficiency. Related reports examine successful efforts to cover children in four states and identify potential performance measures for states’ eligibility and enrollment systems under health reform. Faces of Medicaid: Online Resource Profiles Medicaid Beneficiaries Faces of Medicaid profiles 16 individuals and families from around the U.S. who are among the 60 million people nationally enrolled in Medicaid, which finances health insurance and long-term care coverage for low-income individuals and families. Medicaid is a key focus of federal deficit reduction efforts and also a major component of the coverage expansion in the health reform law. Proposed Models to Integrate Medicare and Medicaid Benefits for Dual Eligibles: A Look at the 15 State Design Contracts Funded By CMS This policy brief summarizes 15 states’ preliminary proposals to better coordinate care for people who are in both the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Another brief provides an update on financial alignment models for dual eligibles based on information in the CMS July 2011 State Medical Director letter and the responding states' letters of intent. Federal Core Requirements And State Options In Medicaid: Current Policies And Key Issues This issue brief presents an overview of the current Medicaid program framework of federal core requirements and state options, with a focus on eligibility, benefits and cost sharing, care delivery and provider payment, long-term services and supports, and dual eligibles. Another brief reviews the use of provider taxes as a mechanism for financing the state share of Medicaid spending and explores the implications of proposed changes in the federal rules that states must follow in designing their provider tax structures. A third brief summarizes the major provisions of a rule proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that would set forth state requirements for ensuring access to care in state Medicaid programs. A relate issue brief looks at Medicaid Enrollment and Expenditures by Federal Core Requirements and State Options. Health Reform Roundtables: Charting A Course Forward Health Reform Roundtables: Charting A Course Forward is a series of discussions among federal officials, state officials and outside experts that provides a forum to share insights and explores key issues related to implementing a significant expansion of the Medicaid program as part of the new health reform law and coordinating that expansion with the creation of new state-based insurance Exchanges. The latest brief in the series examines ensuring access to care in Medicaid under health reform.

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State Fiscal Conditions & Medicaid -- February 2012

A Guide to the Supreme Court's Review of the 2010 Health Care Reform Law -- February 2012

State Adoption of Coverage and Enrollment Options in The Children's Health Insurance Reauthorization Act of 2009 -- February 2012

Establishing Health Insurance Exchanges: An Update on State Efforts -- January 2012

Performing Under Pressure: Annual Findings of a 50-State Survey of Eligibility, Enrollment, Renewal, and Cost-Sharing Policies in Medicaid and CHIP, 2011-2012 -- January 2012

Briefing, Survey Examine 2012 Data From 50-State Survey of Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility and Enrollment Policies -- January 2012

Secrets to Success: An Analysis of Four States at the Forefront of the Nation’s Gains in Children’s Health Coverage -- January 2012

Medicaid Enrollment and Expenditures by Federal Core Requirements and State Options -- January 2012

Health Affairs Article: Medicaid Expansion Under Health Reform May Increase Service Use & Improve Access For Low-Income Adults With Diabetes -- January 2012

Performance Measurement Under Health Reform: Proposed Measures For Eligibility and Enrollment Systems and Key Issues and Trade-offs to Consider -- December 2011

This fact sheet summarizes the relationship of Medicaid with state budgets and discusses the current fiscal situation in the states and how it is affecting Medicaid programs.

This brief examines the pending Supreme Court case challenging the 2010 Affordable Care Act, including the key constitutional questions issues and the parties' legal arguments.

This fact sheet provides an overview of new coverage options, enrollment tools and incentives provided by the Children's Health Insurance Reauthorization Act of 2009 and state adoption of those options to date.

This issue brief examines states' progress in setting up the state-based health insurance exchanges through which millions of Americans are expected to purchase coverage under The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) beginning in 2014.

The annual 50-state survey of Medicaid and CHIP eligibility rules, enrollment and renewal procedures and cost sharing practices, found that, despite continued fiscal pressures on states, eligibility policies remained stable in nearly all state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Programs during 2011.

Report and other materials from the Jan. 18, 2012 public briefing on KCMU's annual 50-state survey of Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility and Enrollment Policies.

This paper analyzes the experience of four states -- Alabama, Iowa, Massachusetts, and Oregon -- that have significantly improved health coverage of children in recent years.

This analysis uses 2007 data to examine the proportion of Medicaid enrollment and spending attributable to state expansion enrollees versus federal core enrollees and presents estimates of spending on mandatory versus optional health benefits across all enrollee types.

This analysis finds that Medicaid’s role in financing diabetes care will grow when many low-income uninsured people with diabetes become eligible for Medicaid as the program expansions under the Affordable Care Act in 2014.

This brief seeks to inform the development of performance measures for states' eligibility and enrollment systems under health reform by presenting a list of potential performance measures and identifying key issues and tradeoffs to consider in selecting and developing measures.

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