CLASP monitors requests from states to modify their Medicaid program through waivers. Here you will find CLASP’s comments to states and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), along with reports, briefs, and blogs that speak to Medicaid waivers.
The Biden-Harris Administration's combined efforts to strengthen Medicaid and provide an open enrollment period for Marketplace coverage will ensure that more people have affordable health insurance amidst a pandemic.
Before leaving office, the Trump administration approved a waiver for Tennessee that limits how much federal money the state can receive for Medicaid, risking coverage for thousands.
CLASP submits the following comments in response to Georgia’s 1332 waiver request to exit the federal marketplace with no substitution. CLASP has deep concerns about Georgia’s wavier request because it would eliminate the central source of help for the roughly 500,000 Georgians who enroll in…
CLASP submitted comments opposing Georgia’s application for its section 1115 waiver that would allow it to apply work requirements as a condition of eligibility for Medicaid. The proposal would also limit its expansion of Medicaid and require individuals with incomes as low as 51 percent…
New guidance and a waiver application package would allow states to convert a portion of their Medicaid programs to block grants. This would undermine Medicaid, worsen health, put state budgets at risk, and deepen the next recession.