PBS

Arkansas Medicaid recipients fight to stay covered after federal protections end

Medicaid enrollments reached unprecedented levels when Congress temporarily blocked states from kicking people off of the health insurance plan during the pandemic. But that policy has ended, and now ...
Arkansas Times

Arkansas program providing at-home visits for high-risk pregnancies to expand to Paragould

A Medicaid program that aims to improve care for pregnant Arkansans is expanding, with further growth in the works down the ...
Yahoo

Biden administration says premiums for Arkansas Medicaid expansion must end in one year

In June 2018, when Arkansas became the first state in the nation to implement work requirements for certain Medicaid beneficiaries, Governor Hutchinson was triumphant. “We’ve wanted to establish a ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Nearly 73,000 Medicaid beneficiaries in Arkansas lose coverage in April

The cases of 72,802 Medicaid beneficiaries in Arkansas were closed at the end of April because they either didn't return requested information necessary to determine their eligibility or are no longer ...
Arkansas Times

Arkansas’s post-pandemic Medicaid purge is harshest in the nation, data shows

Amid the drama of the recent special legislative session, we almost missed another piece of news from last week: Arkansas kicked another 72,519 people off Medicaid in August, including at least 23,000 ...
WREG

Arkansas continues Medicaid review, disenrolls over 70,000 patients in August

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – More than 70,000 ...
4029tv

Arkansans must return Medicaid renewal packets to keep eligibility

We're talking about Medicaid here on 40 20 nineties on the record. Gavin sick is here with us from the Arkansas Department of Human Services, the Chief of Communications. Now, uh Gavin, tell us *** ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Arkansas wins approval for Medicaid coverage of short-term stays in psychiatric hospitals

A federal agency has approved Arkansas' request to use Medicaid funds to pay for short-term stays for adults at psychiatric hospitals, something state officials say will expand low-income Arkansans' ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Some Arkansas Medicaid costs will rise when federal covid emergency ends, state official tells lawmakers

Arkansas' proposed Medicaid budget for the fiscal year starting July 1 is based on the federal government ending its public health emergency, Department of Human Services Secretary Cindy Gillespie ...
Yahoo

An Arkansas psychiatrist held patients against their will and fraudulently billed Medicaid to the point it skewed the state's data, investigators say

Arkansas state investigators believe Dr. Brian Hyatt committed Medicaid and Medicare fraud by holding psychiatry patients in a facility against their will.alkir/ Getty Images A prominent Arkansas ...
Southwest Times Record

Biden administration says premiums for Arkansas Medicaid expansion must end in one year

In June 2018, when Arkansas became the first state in the nation to implement work requirements for certain Medicaid beneficiaries, Governor Hutchinson was triumphant. “We’ve wanted to establish a ...