States Face Another Challenge With Medicaid Work Rules: Staffing Shortages
Katie Crouch says calling her state’s Medicaid agency to get information about her benefits can feel like a series of dead ends. “The first time,...
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How Medicaid Contractors Stand To Gain From Trump’s Policy
States are paying contractors such as Deloitte, Accenture, and Optum millions of dollars to help them comply with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act —...
Trump’s Hunt for Undocumented Medicaid Enrollees Yields Few Violators
Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News Last August, as part of the federal government’s crackdown on people in the country illegally, the Trump administration sent states...
States Pay Deloitte, Others Millions To Comply With Trump Law To Cut Medicaid Rolls
Samantha Liss and Rachana Pradhan States are paying contractors such as Deloitte, Accenture, and Optum millions of dollars to help them comply with the One...
Oz Escalates Medicaid Fraud Claims Against States After Focus on Minnesota
The Trump administration has signaled a willingness to halt billions of dollars in federal health payments to multiple states, mirroring moves they made against Minnesota....
Journalists Talk Medicaid Work Mandate in Georgia and Wage Garnishment Bill in Colorado
KFF Health News southern correspondent Sam Whitehead discussed Medicaid work requirements on WUGA’s The Georgia Health Report on March 6. Click here to hear Whitehead...
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...
Trump’s Cuts to Medicaid Threaten Services That Help Disabled People Live at Home
OTTUMWA, Iowa — Leisa and Kent Walker recently received a disturbing notice: The private company managing their son’s Medicaid coverage intends to cut nearly 40%...
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. Services at risk include...
Medicaid Is Paying for More Dental Care. GOP Cuts Threaten To Reverse the Trend.
Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News Star Quinn moved to Kingsport, Tennessee, in 2023, the same year the state began covering dental costs for about 600,000...