Medicaid covers essential screenings, contraception, prenatal care and delivery. Medicaid plays an outsized role in healthy ...

Federal Medicaid cuts under consideration would have dire financial impacts for state hospitals, including those in the West ...

Some lawmakers are pushing to require that Medicaid recipients work in order to get or keep coverage, and some states already try to help them find jobs. But the effects of those efforts are unclear.

Fotinos, the state’s Medicaid director under the Washington State Health Care Authority, was speaking to a virtual roomful of attendees at the state Department of Health’s (DOH) monthly community ...

Washington hospitals are raising alarm that taxes and insurance payment caps proposed in the Legislature could jeopardize ...

At Mason General Hospital, about a third of patients are covered by Medicaid, the state-federal insurance program for people with low incomes or disabilities. Enrollment has grown steadily over ...

serves as an overly-creative financing mechanism to skirt state budget responsibilities,” reads the announcement obtained by the Washington Examiner about the policy decision. Medicaid ...

For the 99.9% of our clients who can only access our services through state-funded Medicaid, Washington’s investment is what allows them to receive the support they need to bathe, dress ...

Impending federal cuts to safety net programs like school meals and Medicaid threaten our most vulnerable residents, especially children who cannot advocate for themselves. As a result, states have a ...

At its most basic level, our job is to be consistent in our caregiving. For the 99.9% of our clients who can only access our services through state-funded Medicaid, Washington’s investment is what ...

Washington currently sends more than ... and behavioral health and substance abuse treatment services. State officials have modeled various Medicaid cut projections, based on proposals circulating ...

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act passed by a margin of 220 to 208, with four Democrats joining Republicans ...