Number of Alabamians removed from Medicaid approaches 200K as unwinding continues

As the Alabama Medicaid Agency continues its unwinding process of redetermining the eligibility of the state’s more than 1.1 million Medicaid recipients, nearly 186,000 Alabamians have been removed ... Read More

More people buy private health insurance plans as thousands lose Medicaid coverage

The number of people buying private health insurance policies on the federal marketplace rose slightly this year in Oregon as thousands lost Medicaid coverage. Read More

Thousands of children will lose Medicaid coverage on Easter Sunday

Basile spoke with CBS12 News ... Medicaid program since last April. This comes after the end of a pandemic-era policy that banned states from removing ineligible participants from the health ... Read More

Medicaid website lists “Alabama boogie woogie” in absurd error

When rolling over Alabama on a ... poverty level — $20,783 a year for an individual as of January — would be eligible for full Medicaid benefits but would receive coverage through a private ... Read More

Proposed changes to state Medicaid plans could shake up health coverage for 1.8 million low-income Texans

The move, which has not been finalized, would drop three large health plans run for two decades by nonprofit children’s hospitals. Read More

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Researchers found health system performance is worse for many people of color. Democrats in the Arizona Senate cleared a path to bring a proposed repeal of the state’s near-total ban on ... Read More

Why homeless people are losing health coverage in Medicaid mix-ups

Nearly 130,000 Montanans lost Medicaid coverage during recent eligibility reviews. People who are homeless are more likely to have chronic health issues and particularly vulnerable to losing coverage. Read More

Thousands die from opioid overdoses in Florida each year. Could Medicaid expansion lessen the toll?

But the 53-year ... health worker remembers how it felt to be in the depths of an opioid addiction. She describes it like being stuck just underwater, unable to reach the surface for air. “You'd ... Read More

As Pennsylvania’s Medicaid 'unwinding' hits a year, thousands have lost coverage but many haven’t

It’s been one year ... Medicaid-related cases. WESA Inbox Edition Newsletter Do you like science, health and tech stories? Sign up for our newsletter and we'll send you Pittsburgh's top news ... Read More

Group convenes to help 130K Montanans who lost health insurance

It’s part of a national surge in enrollment drops, an “unwinding” that KFF Health News called the “biggest upheaval in the 58-year ... Medicaid coverage allows them to receive the medical ... Read More

US Health News

The agency received reports of 19 women across the US who were given counterfeit ... which is welcome news because the cancer has a five-year survival rate of 32 percent once it has spread ... Read More

Health & Medicine News

Apr. 15, 2024 — Important differences in how the nasal cells of young and elderly people respond to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, could explain why children typically experience milder COVID-19 symptoms ... Read More