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State Medicaid and WIC Agencies Can Work Together to Improve Nutrition and Health Medicaid and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) share goals and participants. [...] But education, breastfeeding support, while Medicaid reaches most eligible and referrals to health care and social children and parents, WIC reaches services to low-income pregnant and less than half of eligible pregnant postpartum people and children under people and young children and an age 5. [...] CBPP | Georgetown University CCF 1 Research shows that WIC participation State Medicaid and WIC agencies described on the next page to take reduces premature births, infant can work together to increase WIC advantage of every opportunity to deaths, and low birth weights; participation and improve the health connect Medicaid applicants and increases children’s preventive care of young children and. [...] states ideally would use the strategies Medicaid-Related Entry Points to WIC Medicaid and WIC can collaborate at the state level to facilitate WIC enrollment y Every Medicaid applicant who is pregnant, postpartum, or a child under age 5 could be routinely and automatically referred to WIC. [...] Medicaid can also require MCOs to screen for and track HRSN and make referrals to WIC and then can reward enrollment in WIC.