Sixty years ago today, Medicaid was signed into law as part of a sweeping vision to expand health security to the most vulnerable Americans. What began in 1965 as a modest insurance program for ...

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a rule Thursday afternoon, clamping down on states’ Medicaid provider taxes. | Restrictions on "a Medicaid financing gimmick” through which ...

For many Washington residents enrolled in Apple Health (Medicaid), finding timely outpatient mental health care can feel out of reach. With community resources stretched thin and long waitlists ...

Now that Republicans' big tax-and-spending bill has become law, there will be new bureaucratic hurdles for millions of Americans who rely on Medicaid. The new law contains a provision that in most ...

There’s been much discussion and debate about the cuts to Medicaid eligibility that Congress just passed and, in particular, what they may mean for current Medicaid recipients. A key piece of evidence ...

Senators have launched an inquiry into companies paid billions in taxpayer dollars to build eligibility systems for Medicaid, expressing concern that error-riddled technology and looming work ...

During his first administration, President Trump's top health officials gave North Carolina permission to use Medicaid money for social services not traditionally covered by health insurance. It was a ...

Holly Lewis has already seen what happens when a nursing home has staffing troubles. Five years ago, as the COVID pandemic raged, Lewis watched institutional knowledge disappear from her mother’s ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — As congressional Republicans finalized Medicaid work requirements in President Trump's budget bill, one man who relies on that government-subsidized health coverage was trying to ...

House Republicans want to impose work requirements on some Medicaid recipients up to 64 years old and impose more costs on some beneficiaries to help pay for President Donald Trump’s planned sweeping ...

Editor’s Note (7/3/25): The House of Representatives passed the budget bill in a 218–214 vote today. It will now go to President Donald Trump for signature. Money can’t necessarily buy an individual ...