With ICE using Medicaid data, hospitals and states are in a bind over warning immigrant patients

The Trump administration’s move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is putting hospitals and states in a bind as they weigh whether to alert immigrant patients that their personal ...
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How people with disabilities could bear the burden of Medicaid funding cuts

According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act will slash more than a trillion dollars in federal spending from Medicaid and the Children’s ...

New Oregon study shows why Medicaid patients nationwide struggle to find doctors

The study used a national Medicaid claims database and excluded Oregon, South Dakota and Arkansas because of reporting ...

What Medicaid, SNAP work requirements in Trump's 'big beautiful bill' mean for older workers

The new "big beautiful" law aims to make it so millions of Americans pay less taxes. Yet many older Americans may see ...

How Hochul trimmed Medicaid’s waste

Recent reporting has put a spotlight on Medicaid fraud and what can happen when large public programs operate without close ...

New York’s runaway $115B Medicaid ‘gravy train’ needs oversight in light of Minnesota fraud, critics charge

After billions in Medicaid money was stolen by fraudsters in Minnesota, all eyes are on New York — where spending on health ...

ICE can use Medicaid data to find people without legal status for deportation cases

Starting this week, ICE can use Medicaid data in deportation cases. A judge rejected a legal challenge against the practice ...

Louisiana starts to wind down UnitedHealthcare’s Medicaid contract covering 330,000 people

Louisiana started moving 330,000 Medicaid recipients last week out of insurance plans UnitedHealthcare offers at the ...