I wonder if they checked the math this time since they had to retract their claims about alleged Medicaid fraud in NY which were grossly inaccurate. apnews.com/article/new-...

Nebraska rushes to put the federal Medicaid work reporting mandate in place. People will likely fall through the cracks, leading to more uninsured people. That will put additional strain on ERs as uninsured people have nowhere else to turn to for care. @joanalker1.bsky.social @neappleseed.org

Nebraska's rollout of work reporting requirement mandate is flawed. Read @joanalker1.bsky.social blog to learn how flawed and how parents losing Medicaid coverage will affect children in Nebraska and elsewhere. ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/05/08/d...

👀Nebraska has chosen to go early with implementing Medicaid work reporting requirements on every state 5/1 -- which is Friday! Screenshot below just taken at 4:15 ET 4/29. The state's Medicaid website is going down for maintenance Friday. Scary.

Many states unsure how to implement new Medicaid work requirements, @kff.org @georgetownccf.bsky.social survey finds michiganadvance.com/2026/04/30/r...

Trump says he’s going after Medicaid fraud, but is mostly focusing on blue states stateline.org/2026/04/16/t...

Medicaid was crucial to give Julie the maternal health support she needed while she was pregnant and uninsured, and led to her career as a maternity care and public health nurse. Share your story! https://action.momsrising.org/survey/medicaid-story/?source=bsky.mr #HealthCareNotTrumpsWar #MomSky

Medicaid expansion boosted access to opioid addiction treatment medication, study says stateline.org/2026/04/10/m...

In a rare occurrence, a Trump administration official admits to making a HUGE mistake in allegations of fraud in New York home health care.

New: The Trump administration acknowledged it made a major error in figures it used to help justify a fraud probe into New York’s Medicaid program. “These numbers could have been cleared up in a phone call, so it’s really slapdash,” one analyst said. apnews.com/article/new-...

Trump’s math behind Medicaid fraud claims doesn’t add up—literally www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Herd immunity is waning, and that is putting babies at risk.

The Trump Admin attack on Medicaid fraud primarily in blue states is nothing more than an effort to distract voters from Medicaid cuts and attack their political enemies. The math Dr. Oz used in his official letter to NY was such garbage even he had to admit it. apnews.com/article/new-...

Check out how Medicaid helps people in your state. #MedicaidAwarenessMonth https://bit.ly/4bZr8KO

Did you know that Medicaid spending on home care is growing because states are choosing to offer it as an alternative to institutional care in nursing facilities? www.kff.org/medicaid/und...

Every month is #MedicaidAwarenessMonth @GeorgetownCCF. Our series of fact sheets explains how Medicaid helps children, pregnant women, caregivers, people with disabilities, seniors, and families who otherwise could not afford health care.

New with @pamherd.bsky.social: While never mentioning Trump or political parties, the show’s second season offers an almost-real time commentary on how policy changes are affecting health. Lets take one particular example of Medicaid coverage loss. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-p...

Federal $ cuts and policy mandates put states in a bind as they struggle to meet the nutrition needs of children and families.

Hats off to #ThePitt for depicting an all too common reason why there are uninsured kids in the U.S. Most uninsured kids are eligible for Medicaid or CHIP but they’ve lost coverage due to red tape barriers. The nation’s progress on this very issue is now at grave risk.

It’s not just Ms. Rachel. The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention. Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

My latest blog with Adriana Kohler is here for on parents and Medicaid work requirements: The bottom line - the vast majority of parents are exempt including anyone with a child under 14. But there is a lack of awareness — and of course there are complexities. ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/04/02/w...

Congress said the Rural Health Transformation Fund would offset impact of Medicaid cuts on rural hospitals. It's falling short of that promise.

Cuts foisted on states by the One Big Beautiful Bill are beginning to cause harsh consequences for people covered by Medicaid. Leaders in Congress vowed the most vulnerable would be protected from Medicaid cuts. @kffhealthnews.org tells a different story and this is just the tip of the iceberg.

They also show that #Medicaid per-enrollee growth was relatively flat over the 2010-2024 period and 27% lower than projected, a much greater reduction than for both Medicare and employer-sponsored insurance. Refutes the false claims that Medicaid spending is somehow out-of-control (2/2)

States say ICE pulled Medicaid data despite court order missouriindependent.com/2026/03/31/r...

A PSA that I’ll keep sending due to misinformation and confusion. Medicaid work requirements are not in effect yet. Even when they are all parents with children under 14 are EXEMPT. Spread the word.

Not to mention setting millions of Americans on a path to becoming uninsured which means they are entirely knocked out of a health system for which having insurance is the price of admission.

Must read on how Dr Oz's estimate of alleged Medicaid fraud in NY is likely vastly overstated due to a simple math error. Scary that this is where the federal agency that runs a great deal of the US health care system is at. fiscalpolicy.org/the-basic-ma...

Yes! Go @hbraum.bsky.social and Kansas Action for Children!

H/T to @davidmwessel.bsky.social for flagging new @brookings.edu research from @davidmcutler.bsky.social & Lev Klarnet. One of the goals of the ACA was to help slow growth in health care costs systemwide. They find lower-than-projected costs between 2010-2024 (1/2): www.brookings.edu/articles/has...

This speaks to the folly of HR1 last year which made historic cuts of nearly $1 trillion to Medicaid the leanest part of our health care system while doing nothing to address the high costs of health care.

Inflation has gone up, but income eligibility levels for the Children’s Health Insurance Program in Kansas are stuck in 2008. @heatherbraun.bsky.social is trying to change that.

Medicaid program integrity expert Andy Schneider and @julierovner.bsky.social discuss why successful efforts to combat fraud in Medicaid require federal-state cooperation and should not be politicized on the What the Health podcast.

@nhelp.bsky.social and @flhealthjustice.bsky.social have filed suit against the state of Florida on behalf of kids who are uninsured because Governor DeSantis has refused to implement the CHIP expansion that the legislature passed unanimously two years ago. healthlaw.org/wp-content/u...

Florida's plan to impose a Medicaid work requirement would punish working parents who met the 80-hour requirement by pushing them over the Medicaid income eligibility level, leading to more uninsured parents. Parents need health coverage to stay healthy and care for their kids.

@georgetownccf.bsky.social is thrilled to welcome a new colleague this week (though she is not new to many of us). ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/03/05/c... Adriana will be working full time tracking the implementation of Medicaid work reporting requirements.

Thousands of Minnesotans are still too scared to leave home, even for desperately needed medical care. So doctors and nurses have quietly operated informal, underground medical networks to bring that care to them.

And ICYMI here is the latest blog by my veteran Medicaid expert colleague Andy Schneider on what is happening with the actions against Minnesota. Hint: They are unprecedented. ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/03/02/c...

Better late than never - CMS releases a useful Congressionally mandated toolkit related to improving behavioral health services for children covered by Medicaid. My colleague Anne Dwyer's blog explains. ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/02/24/c...

Minnesota is the first stop on the retribution tour but it won't be the last.

New @apnews.com estimate finds mandate imposed on states by H.R. 1 will cost states an estimated $1 billion. “A huge amount of funding is going to go to vendors to construct these complicated red-tape systems that prevent people who need it from getting health care,” says @joanalker1.bsky.social

A serious effort to detect fraud against Medicaid would not dump data online with no context. CMS itself indicates elsewhere on their website that in 22 states the underlying data that was dumped by the Trump Administration was “unusable” or of “high concern”.

One of the many problems with implementing Medicaid work reporting requirements is that those who are supposed to be exempt will not know that. Exhibit A -- in Nebraska the 1st state to implement WRR (coming on 5/1) does not mention on their website that "Section 1931" parents are excluded.

Children belong in school and with their families, not in ICE detention. www.startribune.com/how-ice-labe...

Threats to child health keep mounting. Read the NYT gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/h...

Comedian made a fake ICE deportation tip line. Then a kindergarten teacher called. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Wisconsin just became the 49th state to adopt 12 months postpartum overage in Medicaid. Only state in the country that has not adopted this policy for new moms is … Arkansas… Congrats to our colleagues in Wisconsin @kidsforward.bsky.social who had been working on this for many years.

Wisconsin passes expanded Medicaid for moms, would leave Arkansas as only state without it. Medicaid helps ensure that moms and babies get the right care at the right time in the year following a birth to protect maternal health, infant health, and early childhood development.

Check out @edwincpark.bsky.social thread on the new CBO Medicaid baseline. You will see a few things: 1. ACA Medicaid expansion enrollees decline by 41% - ouch 2. Child enrollment declines by 2 million 3. Seniors enrollment goes up (aging pop) 4. Admin costs go up (the cost of red tape)