Texas groups urge lawmakers to fund improvements to Medicaid, …
4 days ago · The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is asking the state for $300 million in its next budget to address long processing times for SNAP, Medicaid and other applications.
9 states could end coverage for millions with Medicaid cuts
Dec 15, 2024 · More than 3 million adults in nine states would be at immediate risk of losing their health coverage should the GOP reduce the extra federal Medicaid funding that’s enabled states to widen eligibility, according to KFF, a health information nonprofit that includes KFF Health News, and the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families.
Medicaid cuts expected under Trump. What to know in Arizona
2 days ago · Medicaid is health insurance for primarily low-income people and in Arizona, it is a $21 billion program that enrolls 2.1 million people and is known as the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment ...
Federal Funding Cuts to Medicaid May Trigger Automatic Loss of …
Nov 27, 2024 · Despite virtually no discussion of Medicaid during the election, Medicaid is facing proposals for significant reductions in federal funding.
More than 5 million children lose Medicaid health coverage - NBC News
Dec 13, 2024 · NBC News' Jesse Kirsch reports on one father in Colorado struggling to get Medicaid reinstated for his young daughter. More than 5 million American children have lost their Medicaid coverage after ...
Texas agency to ask for $300M to fix ‘neglect' in Medicaid …
Dec 11, 2024 · As of Nov. 22, the wait time for a Medicaid application for an adult or child to be processed was 71 days and 131,869 applications were waiting to be completed. As of Dec. 5, the wait time was ...
Trump may again seek cuts to Medicaid. Here's who would be …
Nov 16, 2024 · Trump proposed cutting the federal food stamp program, eliminating the Medicaid expansion that was passed as part of the ACA, and other programs serving low-income Americans.
20 million people lost their Medicaid coverage in the last year ... - CNN
Apr 12, 2024 · Tens of millions of Americans didn’t have to worry about renewing or losing their Medicaid coverage for the first three years of the Covid-19 pandemic, thanks to a 2020 congressional relief ...
5 Takeaways From a Year of Medicaid Upheaval - The New York Times
Apr 16, 2024 · More than 20 million Americans lost Medicaid at some point in the past year, according to KFF, a nonprofit health policy research group — an unprecedented event in the joint federal-state...
Proposed Medicaid changes could shake up coverage for 1.8 …
Apr 18, 2024 · Some 1.8 million Texans who receive Medicaid coverage from six managed care organizations across the state would lose their current health plans and be shifted to new insurers next year if Texas...