States Pay Deloitte, Others Millions To Comply With Trump Law To Cut Medicaid Rolls
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act will add red tape and restrictions for those seeking Medicaid and SNAP benefits. And the costs to update computer systems that determine eligibility for those programs will be steep.
Trump’s Hunt for Undocumented Medicaid Enrollees Yields Few Violators
Federal health officials have ordered states to reverify the immigration status of hundreds of thousands of Medicaid enrollees. After seven months, findings from five states show the reviews have uncovered few immigrants without legal status who are improperly receiving benefits.
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Inside the High-Stakes Corporate Fight Over Feeding Preterm Babies
Behind their warm-and-fuzzy marketing, infant formula industry giants Abbott, maker of Similac products, and Mead Johnson, maker of the Enfamil line, have turned neonatal intensive care units into arenas of brutal competition.
She Owed Her Insurer a Nickel, So It Canceled Her Coverage
When medical bills started rolling in, a teacher’s aide in Florida wondered why her insurance suddenly wasn’t covering them. The answer? She owed a balance of 5 cents, so her insurer canceled her policy.
Trump Team Claims Successes Against ACA Fraud While Pushing for More Controls
Give and Take: Federal Rural Health Funding Could Trigger Service Cuts
CDC’s Acting Chief Promises a Return to Stability in a Tumultuous Moment
What the Health? From KFF Health News: A Headless CDC
Taking a GLP-1? Doctors Say Not To Forget About Movement and Mental Health
Demoralized CDC Workforce Reels From Year of Firings, Funding Cuts, and a Shooting
An Arm and a Leg: Steep Health Care Costs Steer Americans to Tough Decisions
‘They Tricked Me’: A Father Was Chained After He Went to ICE To Reunite With His Kids
Rising Health Costs Push Some Middle-Aged Adults To Skip the Doc Until Medicare
Reckoning With State and Federal Cuts, Los Angeles Safety-Net Clinics Push for a New Tax
Across California and the nation, health providers, advocates, local officials, and state legislators are eyeing tax increases to offset a loss of more than $900 billion in federal Medicaid dollars as a result of the GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. In Los Angeles County, community clinics have banded together in support of a half-cent sales tax.
