As Congress wrestles with the need to trim spending, attention has turned to Medicaid, and to a lesser extent, Medicare. These are hardly new issues. Within seven years of the 1965 enactment of ...

Tennessee lawmakers approved in May a bill requiring the state to submit a plan to President Donald Trump’s administration to fund its Medicaid program through a block grant. As the state prepares ...

Protecting tour assets while ensuring access to essential long-term care coverage. The statistics are sobering — more than 70% of Americans over age 65 will need some form of long-term care during ...

About a month after Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R) proposed his Insure Tennessee alternative Medicaid expansion plan, the Tennessee attorney general and the head of the federal health department have ...

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 ...

DiJuana Davis, with daughter Treasure Woodard, at home in Nashville. Davis is a plaintiff in a Tennessee class-action lawsuit contesting the state’s Medicaid eligibility process. She and her children ...

Aug 27 (Reuters) - Tennessee's Medicaid program has wrongly cut off health insurance benefits for thousands of people since 2019 thanks to dysfunctional bureaucracy, a federal judge has ruled, siding ...

President Donald Trump's tax law includes cuts to federal Medicaid funding and new work or volunteer requirements for recipients. Many states have rebranded their Medicaid programs, often omitting ...

Deloitte, a global consultancy that reported revenue last year of $ 65 billion, pulls in billions of dollars from states and the federal government for supplying technology it says will modernize ...

President Trump has hinted at potential spending reductions for Medicaid, while repeatedly stating his opposition to cuts in Medicare. Proposed changes to Medicaid include potential work requirements ...

Tennessee will soon become the first state in the country to offer free diapers to families enrolled in the state's Medicaid program after receiving federal approval, state officials have ...