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Medicaid Enrollees Challenge Rule Threatening Coverage for People With Serious Health Conditions

If policymakers want to protect access to dental care while managing Medicaid costs, adult dental benefits should not be treated as a go-to option for cuts.

Could Wyoming join Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah to partially cover the childbirth resource?

Gov. Abigail Spanberger issued an executive order aimed at protecting Virginians’ access to federal healthcare and food assistance programs.

Congress allowed enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act insurance plans to expire at the end of last year. Now the number of diabetic Mississippians without insurance, and thus regular care, is on...

New federal guidelines would make the state’s Medicaid program financially unsustainable, state health officials said.

Several conservative states will require proof from people who say they're too sick to work.

The Trump administration’s decision not to renew Arkansas’ hybrid Medicaid expansion is alarming medical providers and experts who say the loss of insurance for thousands would be devastating and woul...

Conservatives who have long pushed for Medicaid work requirements often said vulnerable people would get a pass. But the federal government's list of exemptions left off homeless people.

New work requirements, more frequent eligibility reviews and other policy changes will reshape Medicaid for many Hoosiers beginning in 2027.

The first work requirement-related disenrollments begin in Nebraska on Saturday. While the state Medicaid director estimates this will impact 200 Nebraskans, advocates are concerned that the number wi...

Indiana families describe delayed care, confusion and financial strain as Medicaid coverage lapses ripple across the state's health system.

On July 21, 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a new proposed rule that would implement two of H.R. 1’s restrictions on states’ use of provider taxes to finance their shar...

By adopting proven strategies, states can ensure older adults and those with disabilities have the support they need to live independently in their communities.

Complex computer systems that decide whether people get Medicaid benefits have a history of errors. Now, changes to comply with Trump's tax and domestic policy law are inundating those systems.

Physicians say new Medicaid rules starting Jan. 1 regarding employment will undermine their relationships with patients.

This cross-sectional study reports on the association of mortality in formerly incarcerated individuals after the Affordable Care Act allowed states to expand Medicaid coverage.

Democrats in 25 states and the District of Columbia are suing the Trump administration over its interpretation of new Medicaid work requirements.

Thousands of New Mexicans rely on Medicaid to get treatment for life-threatening substance use disorders. Keeping that coverage is about to get harder.

Medicaid cuts and fraud crackdown trickle down to states, threatening people with disabilities.

The new rule implementing HR 1’s Medicaid community engagement provision diverges from state expectations. No last-minute change is likely more harmful than the administration’s final approach to “med...

Blood cancer survivor DeAnna Brandon worries about new Medicaid work requirements affecting her health coverage

It is predicted that the Rural Health Transformation Program’s modest economic gains will be overshadowed by losses from H.R. 1’s budgetary cutbacks.

States dealing with budget shortfalls are facing tens of millions of dollars in new costs ahead of the federal Jan. 1 deadline.

Driving the decline, experts say, are several state and federal policy changes that block or discourage immigrants from getting coverage.

Arizona’s Home and Community-Based Services for people with disabilities could be on the chopping block this year because of federally driven Medicaid cuts. One reason is that Medicaid isn’t required ...

In the 39 states that are adopting or may adopt the high unemployment hardship exception, about 1.4 million or 7.5% of Medicaid expansion enrollees live in one of the 133 counties that currently meet ...

States need to do effective, consumer-friendly outreach and education to communicate new work reporting requirements to affected Medicaid expansion adults and new applicants. Mandatory work reporting ...

Hundreds of hospitals nationwide are bracing for Medicaid cuts as a result of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Some state lawmakers are eyeing loans and other forms of financial aid to distressed hospi...

About 10 percent of county social services positions dedicated to Medicaid are currently vacant, even as recertification work will double.

Many people applying for Medicaid in Nebraska will soon have to prove that they're working, volunteering or in school. On Friday, the state is launching the requirement.