Medicaid Expansions

CaliforniaHealthline asked experts and stakeholders to weigh in and offer suggestions to mitigate the ever growing health care challenges for California's local and state governments.

The Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation (CHRT) at the University of Michigan released a brief summarizing major requirements and policy choices for states between now and 2014.

New Mexico's health reform website.

New York State Health Foundation funded a series of analyses to help the New York State Department of Health's Office of Health Insurance Programs find ways to streamline and expand its public health insurance programs.

This KFF report highlights key Medicaid policy opportunities and challenges related to states' decisions about designing benefits, structuring service delivery and conducting outreach and enrollment for the mental health population.

This issue brief gives an overview of the current Medicaid program framework and outlines key issues regarding the balance between federal standards and state options.

The Texas Senate approved a Medicaid savings bill (S.B. 23) on April 28, 2011.

The brief analyzes data from a CSCHS nationally representative survey of physicians to assess which adult-care PCPs are most likely to respond to health reform’s changes by serving additional Medicaid beneficiaries.

Some policymakers have recommended the use of block grants (or other capped funding arrangements) to limit federal Medicaid spending and give states more flexibility within their Medicaid programs.

This issue brief explores whether the subsidies available through the Affordable Care Act are enough to make health insurance affordable for low-income families.