States are beginning to receive hundreds of millions from a new $50 billion federal rural health program, but lawmakers and health groups are challenging how the money will be spent.
Under new federal law, states must verify millions of enrollees’ employment status. Some officials are worried about the administrative burden.
Officials said the program’s cost ballooned to over $24 million in 2024, which they attributed in large part to parents committing fraud.
Despite warnings that the law criminalizes low-risk behaviors, the state remains one of just five that impose lengthy sex offender registration requirements after conviction.
Despite recent cutbacks to the insurance program, more states now pay for access to doulas, who provide support during pregnancy and childbirth.
Hospitals stand to lose hundreds of millions of dollars under the new tax and spending law, with rural facilities at particular risk. Some states are likely to reconvene their legislatures to deal with funding shortfalls.
After more than 1 million deaths, opioid mortality is dropping fast.
States are spending 15 percent of their home-generated revenue on the program, seeing their largest cost increases in 20 years.
Oregon has enacted a law that's the first of its kind, protecting doctors from corporate interference over medical decision-making.
Hospital associations say more rural facilities will close if Medicaid cuts go through. Potential aid includes changes to matching rates and provider taxes.
Since 2020, more than 100 hospitals in a majority of states have shut down their labor and delivery units.
More than 5 million teenagers take care of older adults as part of their day, including nearly a third of high school students in at least one state. Their numbers may grow if Medicaid gets cuts.
A new cost-cutting law will move the system toward managed care, likely over a period of about four years.
In recent years, conservatives have championed family-friendly workplace policies as “pro-life” measures.
Washington and the states don’t run the program. Contractors do.
Private equity firms have acquired more than 1,000 disability and elder care providers in recent years. Some have been accused of patient harm.
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