Medicaid

Trump Officials Approve Tennessee's Controversial Request To Revamp Medicaid Funding

7:00am January 09, 2021

by Phil Galewitz

The plan, long endorsed by conservatives, would give the state broad flexibility in running its health insurance program for the poor, while capping annual federal funding for the program.

NC Gets Funding To Expand National Early Literacy Program

1:36pm December 23, 2020

by Keri Brown

A national program that works to improve literacy development for young children is expanding across the state.

Forsyth County Begins Disengagement Process From Cardinal Innovations

4:39pm November 13, 2020

by Keri Brown

Forsyth County is taking steps to part ways with Cardinal Innovations Healthcare. It's among several counties in the state seeking to drop the company.

Health & Safety

Carolina Del Norte Lanza Un Portal de Asistencia Para Alimentación y Medicaid

4:52pm November 12, 2020

by Eddie Garcia

El sitio web para los Servicios de Medicaid y Nutrición y Alimentación del Departamento de Salud y Servicios Sociales de Carolina del Norte está disponible ahora en Español.

Health & Safety

NC Launches Spanish Medicaid And Food Assistance Portal

3:23pm November 12, 2020

by Eddie Garcia

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' website for Medicaid and Food and Nutrition Services is now available in Spanish.

Report Says Over 250,000 Lost Job-Related Health Coverage During Pandemic

10:18am November 03, 2020

by Neal Charnoff

A new report estimates that over a quarter of a million North Carolinians lost their health insurance as a result of job losses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Demonstrators pray in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on July 8, a day the court ruled that employers with religious objections can decline to provide contraception coverage under the Affordable Care Act. With the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the ACA's f

The Future Of The Affordable Care Act In A Supreme Court Without Ginsburg

11:11am September 21, 2020

by Julie Rovner

The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg comes just as the Supreme Court was about to hear a case challenging the ACA. It could end Medicaid expansion and protections for preexisting conditions.

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Nika Cotton recently opened Soulcentricitea in Kansas City, Mo. When public schools shut down in the spring, Cotton had no one to watch her young children who are 8 and 10. So she quit her job in social work — and lost her health insurance — in order

Missouri Voters Approve Medicaid Expansion Despite Resistance From Republican Leaders

3:09pm August 05, 2020

by Alex Smith

Missouri is the second state to expand the health care program via ballot measure during the pandemic. Nearly a quarter-million people could get health insurance thanks to the measure.

Voters in Kirkwood, Mo., cast ballots on Nov. 6, 2018 that helped decide the balance of power in Congress. Next week they'll get the chance to decide whether to expand Medicaid in their state. The measure could extend health coverage to more than 230,000

Health & Safety

Will Missouri Be The Next Red State To Expand Medicaid? Voters To Decide

5:00am July 30, 2020

by Cara Anthony

Advocates for expansion say it would create jobs, protect hospitals from budget cuts, bring billions of federal taxpayer dollars back to the state, and bring health coverage to 230,000 more people.

Casa de Salud clinicians, staff and health apprentices socially distance outside their New Mexico clinic. The facility is one of many social safety net clinics that haven't yet received pandemic-related funding and are now on the brink financially.

Health & Safety

Medicaid Clinics And Doctors Have Been Last In Line For COVID-19 Relief Funding

5:00am May 18, 2020

by Julie Rovner

Congress authorized $100 billion to reimburse health care providers for losses linked to the pandemic, but much of that money has gone for Medicare patients, with low-income families left behind.