A new federal law will reduce funding for Medicaid health coverage on which 250,000 Allegheny County residents depend.

Asked whether his state’s Medicaid systems are able to verify compliance with work requirements, he responded, “We’ll screw it up some. I mean, that’s all there is to it, for sure.

Proposed Medicaid cuts in the House Republicans’ sprawling domestic policy bill could cause an estimated 7.6 million Americans to lose health insurance.

Senate Republicans say they are looking for ways to safeguard rural hospitals from proposed cuts to a key Medicaid funding method.

Proposed cuts to Medicaid could undo advances in treatment for opioid use disorders, risking more overdoses, deaths and stress on the U.S. health system ...

It’s true that many voters have short memories. But other Republicans fear this time may be different.

Hospitals stunned by Senate GOP’s Medicaid plan Republicans want to curtail taxes states have imposed to increase payments to hospitals.

Your Medicare and your Social Security are strengthened.” That isn’t even close to being true: The GOP would cut Medicaid by hundreds of billions of dollars in the coming years.

Major cuts to Medicaid funding could have rural communities across the country facing widespread hospital closures and reduced access to health care, says Michael Shepherd, a health policy ...

A proposed $793 billion cut to federal Medicaid spending is projected to increase uninsured rates and place hundreds of hospitals at risk of closure. The House of Representatives passed the One ...

One of the most powerful lobbies in Washington is redoubling its efforts to avoid a cut to Medicaid payments in the GOP’s megabill. Hospital executives weren’t happy last month when the House ...

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