Medicaid Expansions

A report from the National Governors Association and the National Association of State Budget Officials.

An issue brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation explains the new rules governing the way that states determine eligibility for Medicaid and CHIP under health reform, and specifically the changes in how income and household size are defined in order to determine eligibility for those programs as well as for the Exchange premium credits.

An issue brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured provides an overview of what Section 1115 Medicaid waivers are, how they are approved and financed, how states have used them, and how they are impacted by health reform.

This policy brief provides an update on the estimates of the uninsurance rate in Massachusetts as of Spring 2010.

To achieve seamlessness between Medicaid and the state health benefit exchange, the author has outlined five key areas that state policymakers need to coordinate when setting up New York's exchange.