Health insurer Centene confident about improving costs next year
Centene Corp said on Friday it expects medical costs to improve next year as states catch up with reassessment of enrollments for its Medicaid plans that
July 26, 2024Centene Corp said on Friday it expects medical costs to improve next year as states catch up with reassessment of enrollments for its Medicaid plans that
July 26, 2024A growing number of states are offering dental care to low-income adults who once had to rely on charity or the emergency room to treat their tooth problems
September 23, 2023The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s new health plan for low-income adults has enrolled only 1,343 people through the end of September about three months after launching
October 20, 2023Planned Parenthood must face a trial in a $1.8 billion lawsuit by Texas accusing the organization of defrauding the Republican-led state's Medicaid
April 26, 2024The time to shop for health insurance on the Affordable Care Act’s coverage marketplaces is back
November 01, 2023Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accused Pfizer and its supplier Tris Pharma of providing children's ADHD medicine that it knew might be ineffective to the state's
April 26, 2024This lawsuit is only the latest chapter in a battle between the state and the reproductive health care provider that heated up in 2011.
December 04, 2023Starting with the new year, Indiana will implement a universal reimbursement rate for a therapy commonly used by children with autism, at a rate significantly less than what healthcare providers received on average in the past
December 17, 2023Long-held Republican opposition to broader health care coverage may be softening in Georgia and Mississippi
January 04, 2024Mississippi could start providing Medicaid coverage earlier in pregnancy in a bid to improve health outcomes for moms and babies
January 31, 2024South Carolina cannot cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday, finding that doing so would deprive Medicaid patients of
April 26, 2024Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a new law that will allow women to receive Medicaid coverage earlier in pregnancy
March 13, 2024A Navajo state senator in Arizona says she's hoping for final approval of her bill to tighten regulations for rehab facilities amid widespread fraud that has bilked hundreds of millions in Medicaid dollars
March 15, 2024Idaho lawmakers are expected to vote on a bill that would ban the use of any public funds for gender-affirming care, including for state employees using work health insurance and for adults covered by Medicaid
March 18, 2024Medicaid recipients in Wisconsin are getting access to the first over-the-counter birth control pill
March 19, 2024California wants to pay doctors more money to convince them to see more Medicaid patients
March 21, 2024Republican lawmakers in Georgia and Kansas have shot down attempts by Democrats to expand Medicaid in their states
March 21, 2024A new survey shows that almost a quarter of people who have been dropped from Medicaid during post-pandemic eligibility reviews are still uninsured
April 11, 2024Top Mississippi lawmakers have started negotiating on what could become a landmark plan to expand Medicaid coverage to tens of thousands of people in one of the poorest states in the U.S. But even with Republicans controlling both the state House and Senate, it’s far from clear that they will reach a compromise
April 23, 2024Shares of U.S. health insurers fell on Wednesday after UnitedHealth Group's chief executive said the company was keeping an eye on medical services used by
June 14, 2024California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing criticism for his proposal to eliminate an optional Medicaid benefit for some disabled immigrants
May 31, 2024California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to back out of a deal he made last year to pay doctors more money to treat Medicaid patients
June 12, 2024Healthcare spending in the U.S. is projected to have risen 7.5% in 2023 to $4.8 trillion, federal data showed on Wednesday, outpacing the projected annual
June 28, 2024More than 500,000 North Carolina residents have enrolled in state's Medicaid expansion program in the seven months since it was launched
July 12, 2024By now, Georgia officials expected their new Medicaid plan to provide health insurance to 25,000 low income residents
July 14, 2024