Jan. 28—Proposed changes in Congress to Medicaid laws, if implemented, would cost the state nearly half a billion dollars a year in lost federal grants according to a new analysis from the New ...

Hours before the freeze was set to take effect at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Illinois agencies were having trouble accessing Medicaid systems, Pritzker said. More than 3 million people in Illinois receive ...

About 1.4 million Americans live in nursing homes, but how do they pay for it? The majority—nearly two-thirds of all nursing home residents—rely on Medicaid to foot the bill. But getting approved for ...

A bipartisan effort to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage for poor women is again “unlikely” to pass Assembly, Speaker Robin Vos has said. Congress previously gave states a permanent option to accept ...

The ANC-EFF-PA government taking office in Johannesburg will inevitably expose residents to avoidable and painful consequences of crooked coalitions of corruption. Future elections will offer South ...

The comments suggested that the Trump administration was likely to seek a broad overhaul of how the federal government administers Medicaid, the joint federal-state health insurance program for ...

Liberal advocacy groups are ramping up efforts to protect the Medicaid program from potential cuts by Republican lawmakers and the new Trump administration. The Democratic group Protect Our Care ...

Illinois joined a list of states filing a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s new executive order aiming to end birthright citizenship. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced ...

Liberal lawmakers and advocates are moving to shield the Medicaid program from potential ... Michael Lawler (New York), Ryan Mackenzie (Pennsylvania) and David G. Valadao (California) — who ...

“Rural, small town and urban areas form the backbone of Pennsylvania, and Medicaid plays a critical role in ensuring access to healthcare for these communities,” said Becky Ludwick, vice ...

Eleven other Medicaid expansion states have a similar trigger to end their expanded programs: blue states (Illinois, New Mexico), purple states (Arizona, New Hampshire, Virginia), and red states ...

Generating false documentation during audits by the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Superior Health reportedly received over $1 million in Medicaid funds for fraudulent claims and substandard care, ...