For Jennifer Rose and her wife Melanie reading Tarot cards is a way to spend time together other end make some ... More than 230,000 Medicaid recipients in Arkansas have lost coverage since April.

The 23-year-old mother of two is among the 140,000 people who have lost their Medicaid in Arkansas since April, when the state began unwinding a pandemic-era program that allowed more than 1 ...

Arkansas' requirement, the first added by a state to its Medicaid program, resulted in 18,164 Arkansans losing coverage for noncompliance before a federal judge struck it down in March.

Last week, the Biden administration established another red line. On Dec. 21, the federal government approved a proposal from Arkansas officials to continue the state’s unique version of the Medicaid ...

Arkansas wants to change the Medicaid expansion income requirement from 138% of federal poverty level (FPL) to 100% of FPL. Hutchinson said the state and CMS will continue to work on that piece.

Blue states are not alone in treating Medicaid as a credit card with no credit limit. Deep-red Arkansas is approved to cover housing transition and moving costs, as well as nutrition counseling.

Arkansas is the only holdout state that has not pursued the Biden administration's offer to extend Medicaid coverage to new moms for a year after they give birth.

Medicaid enrollments reached unprecedented levels when Congress temporarily blocked states from kicking people off of the health insurance plan during the pandemic. But that policy has ended, and ...