New federal rules give states just months to begin spending and prove results to secure future funding.
Officials hope the move helps them ease a doctor shortage.
Nurses from some of the city’s leading hospitals went on strike early Monday, with labor and management unable to reach a deal that would pay nurses more, provide better security and ensure minimum staffing.
The more flexible approach some doctors are taking clashes with traditional views of how to treat people with addiction.
Worker-owned cooperatives and direct-connect registries are reducing turnover and reshaping how older adults get care at home.
Applied behavior analysis has become one of Medicaid’s fastest-growing costs, prompting cuts that families say threaten progress.
Workers can access up to 20 weeks of combined leave, funded through a new payroll tax shared by employers and employees.
The new CalRx insulin will hit the market in January at $55 a month, part of a broader state effort to rein in drug costs.
One Social Security number was found to have been used for 125 policies in 2023.
Millions of Americans are at risk of losing their health coverage if Congress does not renew ACA subsidies.
Expiring subsidies and fewer insurers fuel 421 percent surge in ACA marketplace premiums.
It’s about governance and whether these systems can avoid reinforcing existing inequities. States, local governments and agencies need to move to embed fairness, transparency and accountability into every stage of AI use.
Billings Clinic’s residency programs are training new doctors in the communities that need them most, countering national shortages in primary care and psychiatry.
New work rules and other reforms could help break the cycle of dependency. But to implement them, states need to move beyond a patchwork of programs that don’t talk to each other. Federal policymakers could help.
With hospitals operating on margins as low as 1 percent, new federal policy changes could undercut care access in rural communities.
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.
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