Medicaid Information Toolkit

How Medicaid Cuts Will Harm Students & Schools (MARCH 2025)

AASA was pleased to contribute to a report published this week by the Healthy Schools Campaign examining how proposed cuts to Medicaid as part of the budget reconciliation process underway in Congress would impact school-based Medicaid programs.

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Obtaining Parental Consent to Bill Medicaid: An Unnecessary, Time-Consuming and Emotionally Fraught Process for Districts and Parents (JANUARY 2023)

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Medicaid 101 for School Superintendents (MARCH 2019)

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Structural Inefficiencies in the School-Based Medicaid Program Disadvantage Small and Rural Districts and Students (FEBRUARY 2019)

• Executive Summary
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Cutting Medicaid: A Prescription to Hurt the Neediest Kids (February 2017)

• Executive Summary
• Full Report
• Addendum (2018)

2021: 

• 50 Organizations Signed a Letter Urging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to update their school-based Medicaid guidance (Feb. 16, 2021)

2017:

• 70 Organizations in the Save Medicaid in Schools Coalition Oppose Graham-Cassidy (Sept. 19, 2017)
• Save Medicaid in Schools Letter on Extension of the Children's Health Insurance Program (Sept. 5, 2017)  
  
• Save Medicaid in Schools Letter on the Better Care Reconciliation Act (July 24, 2017)
  
• Save Medicaid in Schools Letter on the Senate Medicaid bill titled the Better Care Reconciliation Act (June 27, 2017)
  
• Save Medicaid in Schools letter on AHCA (May 2, 2017)
  

8 Facts About Kids on Medicaid and the Services They Receive

What Would Happen if Schools Lose Their Medicaid Dollars

Medicaid PHE Unwinding Toolkit for School Districts

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