The federal funding reductions and new eligibility rules will have severe consequences for those with substance use disorders and returning from incarceration. States have ways to keep many of them covered.

Poor Americans will face new challenges to enroll, and states will have to build new bureaucracies. Medicaid, the public health insurance program for the poor and disabled, will undergo its biggest transformation in more than a decade when a new work requirement is added to the program in 2027.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT/Edited News Release) - Attorney General Tim Griffin announced Tuesday two arrests made recently by his office’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. On Oct. 29, Bobbie Jean Troup, 50, of Helena, and Shaquilla Maria Henry, 31, of Helena were each arrested and charged with Medicaid fraud, a Class C felony.

Starting in 2027, federal law will require all states to do something that Arkansas tried seven years ago — requiring adult Medicaid recipients to work. Why it matters: The main result in Arkansas in 2018 was that people lost health coverage. Andrew ...

Agents with Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin's office last week arrested two Helena-West Helena residents, one of them an employee with the state Department of Corrections, accused of working together to defraud the state's Medicaid program,

Investigators with Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin's office arrested seven people charged with defrauding Medicaid during the first half of October, according to a news release Monday. One of the people arrested between Oct. 3 and Oct. 16 had already ...

Arkansas lawmakers are pushing to end the shutdown as the Department of Human Services could be faced with furloughing 1,500 employees if it continues.