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CMS Phasing Out Medicaid Workforce Initiatives

On July 11, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a letter to states notifying them that going forward CMS does not anticipate approving new 1115 demonstration workforce ...
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Proposed Changes to Demographic Data Collection in the Census Could Impact Efforts to Address Health and Health Care Disparities

This issue brief provides an overview of the decennial census and discusses potential implications of the changes outlined in ...
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Tricia Neuman

Tricia Neuman is a former senior vice president of KFF and served as executive director of its Program on Medicare Policy. Before retiring from KFF in June 2026, she oversaw KFF’s policy analysis and ...
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Early Medicaid Work Requirement Insights From Nebraska

States must first determine if an individual is excluded from the Medicaid work requirements before assessing if an individual meets the qualifying activities. Some individuals who meet exclusion ...
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KFF/AP Survey Probes Rural Voters’ Increasing Anxieties About the Rising Cost of Living, Including Health Costs, Heading into the Midterm Elections

Rural voters’ frustrations about the cost of living in their community are growing and appear to be chipping away at Republicans’ enthusiasm to vote as the midterm elections near, a new KFF/AP Survey ...
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Poll: People Without a Trusted Health Care Provider Are More Likely to Endorse Vaccine Myths, As Are Those Who Often Use Social Media or AI for Health Information

People who don’t have a trusted health care provider are more likely than people with one to believe or lean toward believing several common myths about vaccines, a new KFF Tracking Poll on Health ...
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Status of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions

The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion expanded Medicaid coverage to nearly all adults with incomes up to 138% of the Federal Poverty Level ($21,597 for an individual in 2025) and provided ...
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Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law Medicaid Work Requirements

The 2025 reconciliation law requires states to condition Medicaid eligibility for adults in the ACA Medicaid expansion group on meeting work requirements starting January 1, 2027; however, states have ...
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Global COVID-19 Tracker

Editorial Note: The Policy Actions tracker will no longer be updated as the data source has ceased tracking government responses to COVID-19. For more information, please visit the Oxford Covid-19 ...
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Medicaid Waiver Tracker: Approved and Pending Section 1115 Waivers by State

Section 1115 Medicaid demonstration waivers offer states an avenue to test new approaches in Medicaid that differ from what is required by federal statute, if [in the HHS Secretary’s view] the ...
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Mapping Marketplace Enrollment

The analysis below and zip code tool estimate the share of the potential Marketplace shoppers in geographic areas across the U.S. who enrolled in coverage in 2015. See what share of potential ...
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Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law: Medicaid Work Requirements

The 2025 reconciliation law, once called the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” signed by President Trump on July 4, 2025, requires 44 states (including DC) to condition Medicaid eligibility for adults in the ...