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Medicaid is the United States health program for eligible individuals and families with low incomes and resources. It is a means-tested program that is jointly funded by the states and federal government, and is managed by the states.

Study links prior authorization to delayed heart failure prescriptions

Prior authorization, a process that requires physicians to obtain approval from health care insurers before certain treatments are covered, may keep patients from filling prescriptions for two critical heart failure drugs, a new study shows.

12 Mar 2026

High medical debt leads to significant delays in routine and preventive care

Medical debt is associated with deferred dental care, medical care, and mental health care, even among people with health insurance, according to a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

11 Mar 2026

Geographic location strongly influences stage of breast cancer diagnosis

Where a woman lives significantly affects whether her breast cancer is diagnosed at an early or late stage, according to a national analysis published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS).

11 Mar 2026

Primary care is in trouble. So doctors band together to boost their market power.

Western Massachusetts, a patchwork of rural communities and low-income cities, is a difficult place to find a primary care doctor if you don't already have one.

11 Mar 2026

More kids are in ERs for tooth pain. Trump cuts and RFK Jr.’s anti-fluoride fight aren’t helping.

Eight-year-old Jonah woke up one May morning with a swollen face and a toothache. He refused the pain medication that his mom, Geneva Reynolds, tried to give him. He didn't sleep or eat and cried constantly.

10 Mar 2026

Florida hasn’t expanded Medicaid. Lawmakers want to add work requirements anyway.

In states that have long refused to expand Medicaid to more low-income adults, people in the program aren't subject to new rules under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act requiring them to prove they're working in order to get and keep coverage.

9 Mar 2026

This doctor-senator who backed RFK Jr. now faces a fight for his job — and his legacy

The ambitious liver doctor would go just about anywhere in his home state to give people the hepatitis B vaccine.

6 Mar 2026

Trump’s cuts to Medicaid threaten services that help disabled people live at home

Leisa and Kent Walker recently received a disturbing notice: The private company managing their son's Medicaid coverage intends to cut nearly 40% of what it spends for caregivers who help him live at home instead of in a nursing home.

5 Mar 2026

Lawmakers, health groups resist their states’ rural health fund plans

In the final days of 2025, governors around the country trumpeted the hundreds of millions of federal dollars they won from a new, $50 billion rural health fund.

4 Mar 2026

Despite their successes, some mobile crisis response teams are in crisis

It was a snowy afternoon in Bozeman, a city of nearly 60,000 nestled among the mountains of southern Montana. Temperatures hovered in the mid-30s.

4 Mar 2026

Even patients are shocked by the prices their insurers will pay — and it costs all of us

Samantha Smith of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, went into the operating room for emergency removal of an ectopic pregnancy.

3 Mar 2026

Early interventions provide academic benefits for children with developmental delays or disabilities

Children who received Early Intervention (EI) services before age 3 were more likely to meet third-grade academic standards in math and English language arts (ELA), according to a new study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the New York City Health Department. The findings are published in JAMA Network Open.

2 Mar 2026

Medicaid is paying for more dental care. GOP cuts threaten to reverse the trend.

Star Quinn moved to Kingsport, Tennessee, in 2023, the same year the state began covering dental costs for about 600,000 low-income adults enrolled in Medicaid.

2 Mar 2026

Families defend disability services amid Medicaid cuts

Families of Idahoans with disabilities say their lives could be upended as lawmakers in the state's Republican-dominated legislature mull sweeping cuts.

2 Mar 2026

NIH grant funds evaluation of expanded Medicare Advantage benefits

Today, more than half of older Americans receive their Medicare coverage through private Medicare Advantage plans. In 2020, that program made a sweeping policy shift, allowing those plans to offer supplemental benefits beyond traditional medical care, including groceries, meal deliveries, utilities, transportation, pest control, and air filters.

27 Feb 2026

Medicaid News and Research

Study links prior authorization to delayed heart failure prescriptions

High medical debt leads to significant delays in routine and preventive care

Geographic location strongly influences stage of breast cancer diagnosis

Primary care is in trouble. So doctors band together to boost their market power.

More kids are in ERs for tooth pain. Trump cuts and RFK Jr.’s anti-fluoride fight aren’t helping.

Florida hasn’t expanded Medicaid. Lawmakers want to add work requirements anyway.

This doctor-senator who backed RFK Jr. now faces a fight for his job — and his legacy

Trump’s cuts to Medicaid threaten services that help disabled people live at home

Lawmakers, health groups resist their states’ rural health fund plans

Despite their successes, some mobile crisis response teams are in crisis

Even patients are shocked by the prices their insurers will pay — and it costs all of us

Early interventions provide academic benefits for children with developmental delays or disabilities

Medicaid is paying for more dental care. GOP cuts threaten to reverse the trend.

Families defend disability services amid Medicaid cuts

NIH grant funds evaluation of expanded Medicare Advantage benefits

To avoid care disruptions, know when the clock runs out on your prior authorization

He needs an expensive drug. A copay card helped — until it didn’t.

Heart attack deaths increase in young adults, especially women

‘You aren’t trapped’: Hundreds of US nurses choose Canada over Trump’s America

‘Kind of morbid’: Health premiums threaten their nest egg. A terminal diagnosis may spare it.

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