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		<title>Understanding Medicaid Cost Sharing and Policy Changes from the 2025 Reconciliation Law</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/understanding-medicaid-cost-sharing-and-policy-changes-from-the-2025-reconciliation-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Health Policy and Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Access to Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chronic Diseases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cost Sharing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Utilization]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This brief explains current Medicaid cost sharing rules and changes made to cost sharing rules by the 2025 reconciliation law, reports on cost sharing amounts states currently impose on ACA expansion adults, and highlights literature on the impact of cost sharing. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>State Health Coverage for Immigrants and Implications for Health Coverage and Care</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffakashp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 17:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigrant Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racial Equity and Health Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACA Marketplaces]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coverage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eligibility]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Noncitizen immigrants, particularly those who are undocumented, face significant barriers to accessing health coverage and care and are significantly more likely than citizens to be uninsured. This brief provides an overview of state health coverage programs for immigrants, including among states that have taken up options in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to expand coverage for lawfully present immigrants and/or established fully state-funded programs to fill gaps in coverage for immigrants.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Look at the High Unemployment Hardship Exception to Medicaid Work Requirements Based on Unemployment Data from February 2025 to January 2026</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/a-look-at-the-high-unemployment-hardship-exception-to-medicaid-work-requirements-based-on-unemployment-data-from-february-2025-to-january-2026/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffcleab]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 12:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Health Policy and Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[County-Level Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coverage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eligibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid Work Requirements]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the 39 states that are adopting or may adopt the high unemployment hardship exception, about 1.4 million or 7.5% of Medicaid expansion enrollees live in one of the 133 counties that currently meet the high-unemployment criteria.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CMS’ New Approach to Federal Medicaid Spending in Cases of Potential Fraud</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/cms-new-approach-to-federal-medicaid-spending-in-cases-of-potential-fraud/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffjessicam]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 15:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financing]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[CMS is taking a new approach to fraud that will rely more heavily on options to pause or withhold significant amounts of federal funding in cases of potential fraud, which could have broad implications for states and enrollees. This issue brief explains the new approach.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Medicaid Changes in House and Senate Reconciliation Bills Would Increase Costs for 1.3 Million Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmaissm]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 20:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coverage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dual Eligible Individuals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eligibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enrollment]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[On May 22, the House passed a reconciliation bill, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which would partially pay to extend expiring tax cuts by cutting Medicaid. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the bill would reduce federal Medicaid spending by $793 billion over ten years and 10.3 million fewer people would be enrolled in Medicaid in 2034, including 1.3 million people with Medicare, otherwise known as “dual-eligible individuals”.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law Medicaid Work Requirements: 1115-waivers</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-1115-waivers/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-1115-waivers/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmichaelp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 15:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid Work Requirements]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[State-by-state information on Medicaid 1115 work requirement waivers.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law Medicaid Work Requirements: Related Resources</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-resources/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-resources/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmichaelp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 15:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[KFF resources on the Medicaid work requirements in the 2025 Reconcilation law. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law: Medicaid Work Requirements Implementation Questions</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-implementation-questions/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-implementation-questions/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmichaelp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 15:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid Work Requirements]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A list of the implementation questions relating to the Medicaid work requirements in the 2025 Reconciliation law.  ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law: Medicaid Work Requirements</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-overview/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmichaelp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Health Policy and Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enrollment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid Work Requirements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waivers]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[KFF's interactive tracks key data and policies that will affect how states implement Medicaid work requirements, which are required under the 2025 budget reconciliation law starting in January 2027. The tracker includes state-level data on Medicaid enrollment and renewal outcomes as well as current state enrollment and renewal policies. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law: Medicaid Work Requirements Data and Policies</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-state-national-data-and-policies/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmichaelp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid Work Requirements]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Detailed state and national data related to the 2025 Reconciliation Law Medicaid Work Requirements]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Look at New or Expanded Medicaid and Public Health Partnerships from 2025: Findings from A Survey of State Medicaid Programs</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/a-look-at-new-or-expanded-medicaid-and-public-health-partnerships-from-2025-findings-from-a-survey-of-state-medicaid-programs/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffalishar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Workforce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infectious Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Low Income]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maternal and Child Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opioids]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[State Medicaid and public health agencies both work to advance the health of their communities, often pursuing similar priorities and serving similar populations. This brief examines findings from KFF's 25th annual Medicaid budget survey, which asked state Medicaid directors about new or enhanced initiatives involving public health in FY 2025 or planned for FY 2026. 
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		<title>Medicaid Mental Health and Substance Use: Expansion Trends and the Fiscal Pressure Ahead</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-mental-health-and-substance-use-expansion-trends-and-the-fiscal-pressure-ahead/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffheathers]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 14:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This brief examines recent state trends in Medicaid behavioral health coverage and payment and state coverage of select treatment models for people with serious mental illness—a population that has historically faced significant barriers to care. This includes details about coverage of Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) (as a provider type), Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), and Coordinated Specialty Care for First Episode Psychosis (CSC-FEP). ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What to Know About the BALANCE Model for GLP-1s in Medicare and Medicaid and the Medicare GLP-1 Bridge</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 18:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 13:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 13:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A Look at the GENEROUS Model and Factors That Could Impact Medicaid Drug Costs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 13:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This issue brief provides background on the GENEROUS model, examines the factors that will contribute to the model’s overall impact on Medicaid drug costs, and illustrates how savings will depend on model details that are confidential or uncertain at this time. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Status of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 14:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This page displays an interactive map of the current status of state decisions on the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion. Additional Medicaid expansion resources are listed (with links) below the map.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cost Sharing Requirements for Selected Services for ACA Adults or Waiver Expansion Adults</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffcleab]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 18:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Cost Sharing Requirements for Selected Services for Section 1931 Parents</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/cost-sharing-requirements-for-selected-services-for-section-1931-parents/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffcleab]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 20:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Processes to Suspend and Reinstate Medicaid Coverage for Incarcerated Adults</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/processes-to-suspend-and-reinstate-medicaid-coverage-for-incarcerated-adults/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmariad]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
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