The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services has ended Medicaid coverage for certain weight-loss medications as of today.

HHS has approved Pennsylvania’s plan to use federal Medicaid expansion funding to launch Healthy Pennsylvania, a program that will promote affordable care and increase access to care for the uninsured ...

Providers who care for disabled and aging Pennsylvanians are bracing for potential federal Medicaid cuts they say could push chronically underfunded services past the brink. Advocates representing ...

The continuing growth in states’ Medicaid programs has placed a severe financial strain on state budgets. In fiscal year 2024, Medicaid was the largest category of total state spending, consuming 29.8 ...

Pennsylvania officials and hospital groups warn that there could be dire consequences for Medicaid recipients when the tax and spending bill proposed by President Donald Trump becomes law. The One Big ...

A coalition of cancer survivors, health care providers, disability advocates and nonprofit leaders rallied outside of Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Dave McCormick’s Philadelphia office May 28, 2025, to ...

Zach Shamberg fears federal Medicaid adjustments approved in President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” will worsen a nursing home climate already strained by insufficient care reimbursements ...

Uninsured, low-income Pennsylvania residents are still waiting to see if they will be able to gain coverage under Medicaid expansion in the near future, according to an NPR report. States have the ...

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A statue of George Washington stands in the Rotunda as Republican lawmakers in the House work to push President Donald Trump's signature bill of tax breaks and spending cuts across the finish line ...