February is Black History Month, a time to honor the history and resilience of the black community. But for some, health disparities remain a pressing challenge. According to the U.S. Department of ...

After months of targeting transgender youth medical care, legislators are setting their sights on restrictions against care ...

Nearly 1,300 probationary employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — roughly one-tenth of the agency’s ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said any staffers in the department who are "working for the pharmaceutical industry" should "move out." ...

Reaching out for help is often a difficult step. A novel approach to health services in Milwaukee County is improving outcomes.

As Republicans consider adding work requirements to Medicaid, Georgia and Arkansas — two states with experience running such ...

An analysis released Feb. 13 by KFF found that a proposal to cut the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion match rate ...

The House Republicans' plan announced Wednesday outlined $4.5 trillion in cuts over 10 years. It doesn't specify which programs would be cut, Huffpost reported, but analysts suggested it was clear the ...

and make cuts in federal funding alongside granting flexibility to take coverage away from certain groups or scale back on the health services covered by Medicaid. [5] A recent list of spending cuts ...

Known as Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) waivers, the programs—now in their fourth decade—are funded by Medicaid and run by each individual state. With potential cuts to Medicaid a ...

receive less health care than people born in the U.S. and use fewer Medicaid resources than native-born Americans. This brief responds to conversations such as this one. The Arizona Center for ...

Both Medicaid and CHIP require states to pay some of their total ... the remaining federal program spending supports a variety of other public services. They include investing in education; investing ...