The Latest Breaking News from Medicaid

Shopping for affordable insurance that covers regular doctors and prescriptions can be daunting, figuring out the choices and subsidies to help pay for them. Here’s help.

Many families discover that trying to mitigate the cost of long-term care can conflict with another common retirement concern — reducing taxes for retirees and their heirs.

Abortion bans and a looming Medicaid deadline could make a bad maternal health crisis worse. Will lawmakers act in time?

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento and Solano counties are in a standoff with the state over mental health coverage for a portion of Medicaid patients in those counties — a dispute that threatens to disrupt care for nearly 50,000 low-income residents receiving treatment for severe mental illness.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed legislation to solidify a full year of Medicaid coverage for women after birth

WASHINGTON — A patchwork of state laws in the aftermath of a Supreme Court decision overturning the right to an abortion, combined with pandemic-related burnout and low reimbursement rates, could exacerbate an already looming national shortage of obstetrician-gynecologists, experts say.

Experts worry that a shortage of OBGYNs will exacerbate an increase in problems related to maternal and prenatal health.

Starting April 1, states will have to process through all people on their Medicaid rolls.

LAS VEGAS — President Joe Biden on Wednesday urged lawmakers to work together to lower drug prescription costs for Americans.