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 ...
In 2013, my home state of Arkansas became the first Southern state to adopt Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. We didn’t simply accept what the federal government proposed, however. We ...
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 ...
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 ...
SEEMA VERMA: The Trump administration's head of Medicaid appeared in Little Rock in 2018 to grant Arkansas's request to create a work requirement. Credit: BENJAMIN HARDY Arkansas, meanwhile, is now ...
Brian Hyatt, MD, chair of the Arkansas State Medical Board, has been suspended from participating in Arkansas’ Medicaid program following fraud allegations, the Arkansas Democrat Gazette reported ...
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 ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin said that a man pardoned by President Donald Trump is serving prison time owed to the ...
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 ...
The nation's health department starting Monday can resume sharing the personal data of certain Medicaid enrollees with deportation officials, according to a federal judge's ruling, in a blow to states ...
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 ...