Ensuring Adequate Marketplace Provider Networks_Page_1In order to assist advocates in states, First Focus, along with the Georgetown Center for Children and Families, the Children’s Hospital Association, Family Voices and the Children’s Defense Fund recently released this issue brief on network adequacy: Ensuring Adequate Marketplace Provider Networks: What’s Needed for Children. The brief, written by Michael Odeh from Children Now, explains why children need a robust provider network and how those networks can be developed and assessed over time.