Aug 15 Texas sues Planned Parenthood for millions in Medicaid payments By Paul J. Weber, Associated Press At issue is money Planned Parenthood received for health services before Texas removed the organization from the state's Medicaid program in 2021. Continue reading
Jun 28 Families fear for future of Medicaid caregiver payment program By Tom Murphy, Amanda Seitz, Associated Press Many state Medicaid programs either started paying family caregivers or made more people eligible for help after the pandemic hit. But now with the COVID-19 public health emergency over, some states have already stopped the payments while others have yet… Continue reading
Jun 19 Post-pandemic purge of rolls sees 1 million people dropped from Medicaid By David A. Lieb, Andrew DeMillo, Associated Press About 1.5 million people have lost Medicaid coverage in more than two dozen states as a post-coronavirus pandemic purge of the rolls gets underway. Continue reading
Apr 30 The GOP wants to implement Medicaid work requirements. Here’s what that means By Amanda Seitz, Associated Press More than a half million of the poorest Americans could be left without health insurance under legislation passed by House Republicans that would require people to work in exchange for health care coverage through Medicaid. Here's a look at the proposal and… Continue reading
Apr 28 ‘I’m trying not to go into panic.’ Review of millions of Medicaid enrollees plagued by error and confusion By Amanda Seitz, Anita Snow, Associated Press Advocacy groups have warned for months that confusion and errors will abound throughout the undertaking, wrongly leaving some of the country’s poorest people suddenly without health insurance and unable to pay for necessary medical care. Continue reading
Apr 27 Health care often takes a back seat after incarceration. Here’s how some states are working to change that By Laura Santhanam, Tim McPhillips More than a dozen other states are exploring ways to streamline access to Medicaid and make it easier for people preparing to leave U.S. jails and prisons to receive the care they need. Continue reading
Apr 11 Watch 8:48 Millions at risk of losing Medicaid coverage as pandemic-era program ends By William Brangham, Karina Cuevas Before the pandemic, people had to re-enroll for Medicaid every year by submitting paperwork. That was suspended when COVID hit, but starting this month, Medicaid recipients have to make sure they are enrolled again. Not everyone will receive a notice… Continue watching
Apr 11 Why some cancer patients will fall off a Medicaid coverage cliff this summer By Laura Santhanam “There is a fear that a number of people are going to be lost, and fall through the cracks.”… Continue reading
Apr 10 Watch 8:36 Uninsured patients say North Carolina’s Medicaid expansion is a life-changing development By John Yang, Sam Weber, Kaisha Young North Carolina is now the 40th state to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. The bipartisan expansion, signed into law last month, comes after a decade of Republican resistance in the state. As John Yang reports, it will be… Continue watching
Mar 29 Majority of Americans reject anti-trans bills, but support for this restriction is rising By Laura Santhanam Forty-three percent of Americans now say they support laws that criminalize the act of providing gender-transition-related medical care to minors, according to the latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll, marking a 15-percentage point increase in less than two years. Continue reading