The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences campus on Markham Street in Little Rock. (Photo by John Sykes/Arkansas Advocate) Arkansas has been an unlikely leader in Medicaid policy over the past ...

Looking to end the "silos" that make navigating the state's bureaucratic maze of welfare and workforce programs overly ...

Arkansas Department of Human Services Sec. Kristi Putnam discusses the state's waiver request for Medicaid work requirements on Jan. 28, 2025 as State Medicaid Director Janet Mann (left) and Gov.

SEEMA VERMA: The Trump administration's head of Medicaid appeared in Little Rock in 2018 to grant Arkansas's request to create a work requirement. Credit: BENJAMIN HARDY Arkansas, meanwhile, is now ...

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Arkansas and Georgia both imposed job requirements for Medicaid recipients. Advocates said the programs added red tape and administrative costs.

More than 25 hospitals in Arkansas have received bonus payments from the state’s Medicaid program for improving birth outcomes and quality care, according to a Hope Star report. The report did not ...

Six weeks after an emergency cesarean section, with her newborn twins still in neonatal intensive care, Maya Gobara went to a pharmacy in West Little Rock, Arkansas, to fill a prescription. “The ...

LITTLE ROCK (AP) — More than 427,000 Arkansas residents were dropped from Medicaid in the past six months, as the state became among the first nationally to complete a post-pandemic eligibility review ...

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 now ...