Using Medicaid Waivers to Help States Manage the COVID-19 Public Health Crisis

In the COVID-19 crisis, the need for health care coverage goes well beyond testing; Medicaid’s flexibility can be used to expand eligibility, streamline enrollment, and promote telehealth and offsite care

Medicaid has emerged, as it has in past public health emergencies, as a rapid and efficient means of getting desperately needed funding to states working to stabilize health care systems threatened by the magnitude and ferocity of the COVID-19 crisis. In addition to addressing the testing needs of the privately insured, the Families First Coronavirus Response...