Project UP: WIC and Medicaid Resources

Intro to WIC

• CBPP

  Policy Basics: Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children

• NWA

  The State of WIC

• CBPP

  WIC’s Critical Benefits Reach Only Half of Those Eligible | Appendix | State Fact Sheets

• CBPP

  2024 Appropriations Agreement Fully Funds WIC and Rejects Harmful Food Package Proposals, Creating Opportunities to Reach More Eligible Low-Income Families

• USDA

  WIC Breastfeeding Support

• USDA

  Breastfeeding Promotion in WIC: Current Federal Requirements

• CBPP

  Infant Formula Shortage Highlights WIC’s Critical Role in Feeding Babies

• USDA

  WIC Eligibility Requirements to Bid on State Agency Infant Formula Contracts

Intro to Medicaid

• CBPP

  Policy Basics: Introduction to Medicaid

• MAPCAC

  Medicaid Eligibility 101

• MACPAC

  Medicaid Eligibility for Pregnant People

• MACPAC

  Medicaid Eligibility for Low-Income Children

• The Commonwealth Fund

  The Road to Maternal Health Runs Through Medicaid Managed Care

WIC effectiveness research

• CBPP

  WIC Works: Addressing the Nutrition and Health Needs of Low-Income Families for More Than Four Decades

• USDA

  Reviewing the Evidence for Maternal Health and WIC

  Report to Congress

• USDA and AHRQ

  Maternal and Childhood Outcomes Associated with WIC

• NWA

  WIC Hub

• USDA

  WIC-Related Studies and Reports

WIC certification streamlining

• CBPP

  State WIC Agencies Continue to Use Federal Flexibility to Streamline Enrollment

  Compilation of state WIC certification streamlining policies

• CBPP

  Assessing Your WIC Certification Practices

  WIC certification streamlining toolkit

• CBPP

  Streamlining and Modernizing WIC Enrollment

  WIC certification streamlining case studies

• USDA

  WIC Policy Memo #2023-6: Streamlining Certification Documentation Guidance

• USDA

  WIC Certification and Eligibility Resource and Best Practices Guide

Health and nutrition outcomes

• CDC

  Births in the United States

• CDC

  Infant Mortality in the United States

• CDC

  Low Birthweight in the United States

• CDC

  Maternal Mortality in the United States (2021)

• KFF

  State Health Facts: Health Status

  Summarizes health metrics including births, low birthweight, infant mortality, and maternal mortality

• KFF

  Births Financed by Medicaid

• The Commonwealth Fund

  The U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis Continues to Worsen: An International Comparison

• National Governors Association

  Tackling The Maternal And Infant Health Crisis: A Governor’s Playbook

• USDA

  Household Food Security in the United States in 2022

Health-related social needs

• CBPP

  States Can Use Medicaid to Help Address Health-Related Social Needs | Blog

• State Health & Value Strategies

  Addressing Health-Related Social Needs Through Medicaid Managed Care

  Toolkit with state examples

• Center for Health Care Strategies

  Expanding the Menu: Opportunities for Medicaid to Better Address Food Insecurity

• Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation

  Food is Medicine Project

• Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation

  The evolution and scope of Medicaid Section 1115 demonstrations to address nutrition: a US survey

  In partnership with Tufts University Food is Medicine Institute and University of Massachusetts Medical School Department of Population Health and Quantitative Sciences

• National Health Law Program

  Doula Medicaid Project

• CMS

  State Waivers List: Section 1115 Demonstrations

• CMS

  Coverage of Health-Related Social Needs (HRSN) Services in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)

• HHS

  HHS Call to Action: Addressing Health-Related Social Needs in Communities Across the Nation

• White House

  The U.S. Playbook to Address Social Determinants of Health

• White House

  Biden-Harris Administration National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health

• White House

  White House Blueprint for Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis

Cross program collaboration

• Medicaid and WIC

• CBPP

  State Medicaid Agencies Can Partner With WIC Agencies to Improve the Health of Pregnant and Postpartum People, Infants, and Young Children | Blog | Brief | One-pager

• CBPP

  WIC Coordination With Medicaid and SNAP

• CBPP

  Toolkit: Increasing WIC Coverage Through Cross-Program Data Matching and Targeted Outreach

• CBPP

  Using Data Matching and Targeted Outreach to Enroll Families With Young Children in WIC | Brief

• CBPP

  Matching Data Across Benefit Programs Can Increase WIC Enrollment | Brief

• CBPP

  Targeted Text Message Outreach Can Increase WIC Enrollment, Pilots Show | Brief

• FRAC

  WIC Guide for Health Care Providers

• USDA

  WIC Policy Memorandum #2023-5: Data Sharing to Improve Outreach and Streamline Certification in WIC

• SNAP and WIC

• APHSA

  Coordinating SNAP and Nutrition Supports Cohort 1 Case Studies and Impact Reports 

WIC data

• USDA

  National and State Level Estimates of WIC Eligibility and Program Reach in 2021

• USDA

  WIC Participant and Program Characteristics 2022

• USDA

  WIC Data Tables

  Administrative program data

Medicaid data

• KFF

  Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility and Enrollment Policies as of January 2022: Findings from a 50-State Survey

• MACPAC

  Percentage of Medicaid Enrollees in Managed Care by State and Eligibility Group

• MACPAC

  Total Medicaid Administrative Spending by State and Category

• KFF

  Medicaid Postpartum Coverage Extension Tracker

• CMS

  Continuous Eligibility for Medicaid and CHIP Coverage