House Republicans are considering upending the way some states fund their Medicaid programs as they scour for ways to find billions of dollars in savings from the health program. They are looking at ...

Republicans in Congress cut state-directed Medicaid payments as a part of larger efforts to stamp out what they perceive as fraud, waste and abuse in the safety-net insurance program. The financing ...

Minnesota created a directed-payment program three years ago for Hennepin Healthcare, shoring up revenues for the urban trauma center that treats a high volume of uninsured and impoverished patients.

Unexpected delays in billions of dollars of supplemental Medicaid payments have forced some hospitals across the country to cut costs including laying off staff and pausing payments to medical ...

Hospitals in at least 10 states are experiencing delays in supplemental Medicaid payments from the federal government — a slowdown that has led some facilities to pause the expansion of services and ...

Hospitals are putting major expansion projects on hold and bracing for service cuts as new limits on Medicaid state-directed payments threaten to squeeze already tight finances. Making matters worse, ...