The continuing growth in states’ Medicaid programs has placed a severe financial strain on state budgets. In fiscal year 2024, Medicaid was the largest category of total state spending, consuming 29.8 ...

The CMS plans to end certain Medicaid demonstration waivers granting states more flexibility in how they administer Medicaid, in the Trump administration’s latest cutback of the safety-net insurance ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – Absent an actual proposal from the White House or congressional Republicans, a policy expert mapped out specific vulnerabilities Thursday as Massachusetts and other states brace for ...

Despite the late Justice Louis Brandeis's famous praise of the American political system for helping courageous states serve as "laboratories of democracy," the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

An advocate said consistent communication with the state is especially important with the recent change to a 180-day timeline for service plans and assessments. More than 10,000 people are still on ...

Despite Donald Trump's campaign promise, his administration has taken several steps to scale back Medicaid, the federal-state program that provides health insurance to low-income Americans. The ...

Arkansas is no longer anticipating its proposed "Pathway to Prosperity" initiative to be launched on Jan. 1, instead seeking to implement its Medicaid work requirement requirement later in the year, a ...

Children needing coverage for around-the-clock medical attention may be placed on a waiting list, as North Carolina ceased adding children to a Medicaid waiver program Monday, The News & Observer ...

HELENA, Mont. — The Department of Public Health and Human Services and Gov. Greg Gianforte announced Montana submitted a proposal wavier to strengthen the Medicaid expansion program across the state.