The House-approved budget bill includes proposals for significant spending cuts to Medicaid and new work requirements.

Work requirements for Medicaid recipients, hospitals checking citizenship status, food assistance cuts and other measures in the budget passed by the U.S. House would rearrange the U.S. social safety

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Republicans in the U.S. House of Delegates advanced a mega bundle of bills designed to shave billions from the federal budget, which Democrats and advocates have said will take resources from the nation’s most vulnerable citizens and hinder social safety nets.

The bill is part of a broader effort to curb waste and fraud in the program, which provides health coverage to more than 1.8 million low-income Louisianans.

In the Ohio House’s version of the budget bill, Ohio would eliminate Group VIII — another name for the Medicaid expansion group that covers more than 700,000 Ohioans who live above the income requirements for traditional Medicaid but are still in need of assistance — if the federal government’s share of the funding dips below 90%.

Colorado health care advocates are warning of dire outcomes for rural care providers and patient services under a major domestic policy bill advancing in Congress. House Republicans in the early hours of Thursday approved

The lawmakers on the joint Medicaid Review Panel focused much of the questioning around what lessons have been learned from the state’s current largest managed care contract — the Idaho Behavioral Health Plan. The $1.4 billion contract with Magellan of Idaho was the largest in state history.