Arizona officials acknowledged that a fraud scheme targeting Indigenous people with addictions cost taxpayers $2.5 billion. But they haven’t accounted publicly for the number of deaths tied to the scheme.

Health systems plan to reduce operating expenses, grow through partnerships and consolidation and diversify revenue as they brace for potential cuts.

Funding cuts and regulatory changes could radically reduce Medicaid, the largest program providing medical and health-related services to low-income people, as well as Medicare, federal health insurance for people 65 or older, and some under 65 with certain disabilities or conditions.

Critics say Gov. Mike Braun’s steps to get a handle on Indiana’s ballooning Medicaid budget limits information for potential clients while increasing regulation on current enrollees. Medicaid is publicly-funded health insurance for people with low incomes.

Protect Our Care, a liberal advocacy group, is launching a $10 million “Hands Off Medicaid” campaign that targets 17 GOP lawmakers.

Russell T. Vought, President Trump’s nominee to run the Office of Management and Budget, said he supported work requirements for the program that supports low-income Americans.

Donald Trump is back in the White House and Medicaid is in the spotlight. With a nearly $900 billion price tag, the program that serves 79 million low-income or disabled Americans is now a major target for cuts. Republicans are pushing for big changes, which could mean fewer options and higher health care costs for many families.

Congressional Republicans are taking a hard look at Medicaid as they pursue spending cuts and a new report shows how the public health program is preventing care access from further eroding in rural North Dakota and elsewhere.

You can literally Medicaid yourself out of business,” Dr. Malcom Horn, Rimrock’s chief behavioral health officer, testified to a U.S. Senate subcommittee on health care in April 2024.

A Republican congressman has tabled a federal bill to strip away Medicaid from undocumented immigrants. Kevin Kiley, who represents California's 3rd congressional district, wants to prohibit states from using both federal and state Medicaid funds to provide services for illegal immigrants. His bill includes an exception for emergency services.

Supporters of Idaho's Medicaid expansion sign an RV used by campaign organizers, Reclaim Idaho. A new bill introduced Friday, Jan. 24 would repeal the law passed by voters in 2018. Idaho lawmakers are beginning the work to repeal the state’s voter-approved Medicaid expansion program.

If there’s one thing bringing state lawmakers together this session, it’s this: Fighting fraud. In particular, protecting the billions Minnesota spends on Medicaid, the program that serves nearly a quarter of the state’s population,