Coverage

Inside the Work Reporting Requirement Implementation Guidance: How CMS’s New Rule Decimates Health Care Access for Millions
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its much-anticipated interim final rule with comment period (IFC) on June 1, 2026, providing guidance to states as to how they must im...
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Advocates Were Right to Sound the Alarm: Congress Cut Over $1 Trillion from Health Care — And States Are Already Paying the Price
When Congress debated and ultimately passed H.R. 1 last year, health advocates warned the results would be deadly. Cutting $1 trillion from the health care system — with the majority of it coming fr...
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Big Systems, Bigger Profits: Consumers Are Paying the Price of Corporate Hospital Power
Today Families USA published a new data analysis, "Big Systems, Bigger Profits: Consumers are Paying the Price of Corporate Hospital Power,” that found that just a small number of large corporate he...
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Dissecting the Deepest Cuts: New Restrictions Limiting Access to Medicaid Retroactive Coverage
The 2025 budget reconciliation law (H.R. 1) imposes major new federal restrictions on retroactive coverage, a critical aspect of Medicaid coverage that protects people from financial hardship whil...
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Nebraska’s Rushed Implementation of Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements Puts Residents’ Health at Risk
On Friday, May 1, Nebraska will become the first state to subject Medicaid enrollees to work reporting requirements — eight months before states are required to do so under the Republicans’ ...
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Consumers for Fair Hospital Pricing and Allied Organizations Statement for the Record for the Ways and Means Committee Hearing with Health System CEOs
Consumers for Fair Hospital Pricing and allied organizations submitted this statement for the record to the Ways & Means Committee ahead of their April 28 hearing with health system CEOs. The stat...
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Black Maternal Health Is a Fight for All of Us
As participants in Black Maternal Health Week (BMHW) commemorate the week’s 10-year anniversary, Families USA’s deputy senior director of strategic partnerships, Tasha Dawson, sat down with three ...
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Families USA Submits Comments on Nebraska’s Proposed Section 1115 Demonstration Waiver
Families USA submitted comments to the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services strongly urging the state to withdraw its proposed Sustainable Coverage Demonstration and retain retroactive Med...
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Dissecting the Deepest Cuts: CMS Final Rule: Narrowing “Uniformity Waivers” for Medicaid Provider Taxes
The 2025 budget reconciliation law (H.R. 1) imposes major new restrictions on states’ ability to generate Medicaid provider tax revenue, including by narrowing states’ ability to obtain so-cal...
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Mind the Gap: Bridging the Oral Health Divide for More Affordable and Accessible Coverage
Our country’s affordability crisis is hurting everyday Americans’ access to health care and health coverage. That is just as true for oral health care as it is for other kinds of medical care. App...
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