One-year postpartum Medicaid coverage: Are states ready to offer it soon? [healthjournalism.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 1/13/2211:04 AM

By Kerry Dooley Young, Photo: Toshimasa Ishibashi/Flickr, Association of Health Care Journalists, January 11, 2022

April 1 marks the kickoff date for a federal option that makes it easier for states to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage to one year after childbirth from the current 60-day standard.

Journalists can now find out how well their states have prepared to take advantage of this Medicaid-expansion pathway, which Congress created as part of last year’s American Rescue Plan legislation. Here are several good websites to track the progress states have made in winning needed Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) permission for the one-year postpartum coverage.

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