Medicare recipients in Alabama and across the country will soon receive new identification cards. Starting this month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid will begin mailing new identification ...

In total, 195,568 Alabamians have lost Medicaid coverage since June of 2023, the program’s peak enrollment before the agency began purging its rolls after the expiration of COVID-related federal ...

Currently Alabama receives a 73 percent funding match from the federal government to cover Medicaid expenses. With expansion, that match would increase to 90 percent, but with some associated costs.

Alabama sees higher-than-expected Medicaid disenrollment after pandemic freeze lifts. December 22, 2023 at 3:02 p.m. by Alander Rocha / Alabama Reflector ...

If Alabama adopted Medicaid expansion under the federal Affordable Care Act, at least 174,000 residents would be covered, according to KFF, the health policy research group.

Kansas and Alabama are among a few states still rejecting Medicaid expansion Only 10 states have not joined the federal program that expands Medicaid to people who are still in the "coverage gap ...

In data collected by the Milken Institute, Alabama recorded a maternal mortality rate of 64.63 deaths per 100,000 births between 2018 and 2021. This was twice the national rate of 34.09 per ...