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		<title>Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law Medicaid Work Requirements: 1115-waivers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmichaelp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></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>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmichaelp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></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>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmichaelp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Medicaid Waiver Tracker: Approved and Pending Section 1115 Waivers by State</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmadelineg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 22:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Section 1115 Medicaid waivers can allow states to test new approaches in Medicaid that differ from what is required by federal law. This page tracks approved and pending waiver provisions (including expansions and restrictions) related to eligibility, benefits, and social determinants of health and other delivery system reforms.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Court Decision Eases Burden of Proof to Qualify for Medical Frailty Exclusion to Medicaid Work Requirements</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffcarenec]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A district court's Oct. 29 ruling, if it holds, will ease somewhat the administrative burden associated with implementing the medical frailty exclusion by reducing the complexity of the verification process, likely leading to fewer people losing Medicaid coverage for paperwork reasons.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Medicaid’s Transportation Benefit and the People Who Use It</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaids-transportation-benefit-and-the-people-who-use-it/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaids-transportation-benefit-and-the-people-who-use-it/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffabbyw]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Medicaid's non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) benefit helps low-income enrollees get to care and accounts for less than 1% of Medicaid spending. Amid the current administration's focus on Medicaid fraud, this brief examines how states administer NEMT, what Medicaid spends on the program, and who uses it.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Medicaid/CHIP Monthly Enrollment Tracker</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-enrollment-tracker/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffpatrickd]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Uninsured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Access to Care]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This tracker presents the most recent Medicaid monthly enrollment data.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>9 Things to Watch for the 2027 ACA Open Enrollment Period </title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/9-things-to-watch-for-the-2027-aca-open-enrollment-period/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/9-things-to-watch-for-the-2027-aca-open-enrollment-period/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffraynaw]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The ACA Marketplace Open Enrollment season began November 1, bringing higher premiums, fewer insurer options in some states as more insurers exit the market, less access to health insurance subsidies, and less help finding coverage following federal actions to address broker fraud—among other changes to watch.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Monthly Child Enrollment in Medicaid and CHIP</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffvannn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 15:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Total Monthly Medicaid &amp; CHIP Enrollment and Pre-ACA Enrollment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 14:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 13:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Explaining Health Care Reform: Questions About Health Insurance Subsidies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This brief provides an overview of the financial assistance provided under the ACA for people purchasing coverage on their own through health insurance Marketplaces (also called exchanges). ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>National Academy of Medicine’s 2026 Annual Meeting (Scientific Symposium on Chronic Disease)</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/health-costs/national-academy-of-medicines-2026-annual-meeting-scientific-symposium-on-chronic-disease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[KFF Founding President and CEO Dr. Drew Altman delivered the Victor J. Dzau Keynote Address at the National Academy of Medicine’s 2026 Annual Meeting (Scientific Symposium on Chronic Disease) on October 10, 2026, where he described the big challenges ahead in health policy, and where chronic illness fits.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Midterm Election Update: Immigrant Health Policy  </title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/elections/midterm-election-update-immigrant-health-policy/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffaeronw]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrant Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Immigration restrictions and enforcement are central to the Trump administration’s domestic agenda and a focus of debate in the 2026 midterm elections. These policies have ripple effects on health care: immigration-related fears are leading some immigrant families to avoid medical care and drop coverage, including for U.S. citizen children, and visa restrictions could strain a health care workforce that relies on immigrants. Federal law has also narrowed eligibility for health coverage among lawfully present immigrants, and states are responding in different ways.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Assessing Ability to Work: How Historical SNAP Processes May Vary from Medicaid</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/assessing-ability-to-work-how-historical-snap-processes-may-vary-from-medicaid/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffamayad]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Health Policy and Data]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Security and Nutrition]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.kff.org/?p=719472</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[In light of the uncertainty surrounding how states will verify the Medicaid medical frailty exclusion, this issue brief describes how the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has handled similar administrative challenges. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Midterm Election Update: Medicaid Changes</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/elections/midterm-election-update-medicaid-changes/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffcarenec]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Enrollment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hospitals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid Work Requirements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rural Health]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Major federal changes to Medicaid eligibility and financing from the 2025 reconciliation law are coming, including new work requirements that will affect millions of Medicaid enrollees. KFF’s fact sheet provides an overview of what has changed, what is still ahead, and what the public thinks about Medicaid heading into the midterms.]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Closer Look at State Directed Payments for Nursing Home Services</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/a-closer-look-at-state-directed-payments-for-nursing-home-services/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffpriyac]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nursing Facilities]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Building on previous analysis of state directed payments (SDPs), this issue brief takes a closer look at SDPs for nursing home services. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Medicaid State Fact Sheets</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-state-fact-sheets/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmichaelp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[State Health Policy and Data]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Access to Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coverage]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[What percentage of people are covered by Medicaid in your state? Our State Medicaid fact sheets provide a snapshot with key data for Medicaid in every state related to current coverage, access, and financing, as well as a politics section for each state.

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