The talk of such dramatic changes to the federal-state program has Mississippi lawmakers concerned – and hesitant to push ...

Social Security and Medicare have historically been considered untouchable because the main beneficiaries of those two ...

A lawmaker playing hardball may cost poor pregnant women a policy that would help them receive timely prenatal care.

Advocates have gathered at the Alabama Statehouse to urge lawmakers to reconsider their long-held reluctance to expand ...

Gov. Tate Reeves is having none of it, however, balking at the feds’ benevolence with hardline recalcitrance toward expanding the Medicaid.

The hospital is the only state facility listed among top performers in the U.S. on Healthgrades national rankings.

After two rounds of votes, the bill passed with a vote of 217 to 215. The bill proposes $2 trillion in cuts from the budget which could take funding from social programs like Medicaid. With one in ...

The nation’s poorest state — Mississippi — has traditionally been the recipient of more federal dollars per capita than any other commonwealth. We’ve lived off the federal spending spigot ...

Mississippi— has traditionally been the recipient of more federal dollars per capita than any other. We’ve lived off the ...

Gutting Medicaid means attacking a program backed ... like West Virginia and Mississippi, get over 70 percent.) Significant cuts to this funding would send fiscal shock waves through state ...

Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Tennessee all have submitted waivers to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to launch Medicaid work programs, Tolbert said. About 2 in 3 ...

Looming federal Medicaid cuts could shift a massive financial burden to state governments, potentially requiring them to make up between $700 billion and $1. 1 trillion in funding over the next decade ...