Across Illinois, about 70% of days spent in nursing home care are covered by Medicaid, making it the largest insurance payer for this type of coverage, according to state officials. Advocates worry the proposed cuts will reduce the type of care low-income seniors and those living with

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

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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.

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.

A provision in House Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” passed Thursday would ban Medicaid from covering gender-affirming health care for transgender people of all ages, a last-minute addition to the measure with the potential to upend care for hundreds of thousands of trans Americans.