5 Key Facts About Medicaid and Pregnancy
This brief examines Medicaid’s pregnancy and postpartum coverage and its support for strengthening and improving maternal health outcomes.
View the Latest: Eligibility
Filter
-
-
Utilization of Health Care Services by Medicaid Expansion Status
Issue BriefSome critics of Medicaid expansion have argued that expansion diverts resources away from other groups of Medicaid enrollees, including people with disabilities and children, and that expansion enrollees are “able-bodied” implying they have minimal health care needs. However, data show that expansion states spend more per enrollee overall and on each eligibility group than non-expansion states and that nearly half of expansion enrollees have a chronic condition. This data note analyzes 2021 Medicaid claims data to compare utilization of health care services among Medicaid expansion enrollees with other Medicaid enrollees in expansion states and to compare utilization of health care services among adult Medicaid enrollees living in expansion and non-expansion states.
-
Implementing Work Requirements on a National Scale: What We Know from State Waiver Experience
Policy WatchOn May 18, the House Budget Committee advanced a budget reconciliation bill that includes significant changes to the Medicaid program. As anticipated, Medicaid work requirement provisions are included and preliminary estimates released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) show that this provision would reduce federal spending by $280 billion over ten years, nearly half of all estimated Medicaid savings in the bill. The provisions raise many operational and implementation questions, particularly considering the experience of Arkansas and Georgia with implementing work requirements through waivers.
-
Medicaid Eligibility for Katie Beckett Children with Significant Disabilities and Special Income Rule
State Health Facts Indicator -
Medicaid Eligibility through Buy-In Programs for Working People with Disabilities
State Health Facts Indicator -
Medicaid Eligibility for SSI Enrollees and Optional Seniors & People with Disabilities Up To 100% FPL
State Health Facts IndicatorMedicaid eligibility, seniors, people with disabilities
-
50-State Survey Archives: Medicaid HCBS and Eligibility Based on Disability or Age 65+
ReportThis page holds an archive of KFF's regular surveys of states about their Medicaid home- and community-based services (HCBS) programs and their eligibility policies for people who are eligible for Medicaid on the basis of having a disability or being ages 65 and older (the “non-MAGI” eligibility pathways).
-
Medicaid Eligibility Levels for Older Adults and People with Disabilities (Non-MAGI) in 2025
Issue BriefKFF’s Survey of Medicaid Financial Eligibility for Older Adults & People with Disabilities, conducted in March 2025 by KFF and Watts Health Policy Consulting, provides a baseline of Medicaid eligibility as states return to normal operations after the end of the COVID-19 pandemic and ahead of potential changes to the Medicaid program.
-
Medicaid/CHIP Coverage of Lawfully-Residing Immigrant Children and Pregnant Women
State Health Facts Indicator -
Medicaid and CHIP Income Eligibility Limits for Pregnant Women as a Percent of the Federal Poverty Level
State Health Facts Indicatoreligibility Medicaid CHIP