Charmeka Newton, a psychologist who has her own practice in Lansing, is passionate about serving Black and Hispanic patients. They’re often looking for therapists who will understand how their race, ...

As a child and adolescent psychiatrist, I’ve spent my career caring for families whose only access to mental health care comes through Medicaid. I’ve worked alongside schools and health systems to ...

This town’s hospital is a holdout on behalf of people going through mental health crises. The facility’s leaders have pledged not to shutter their inpatient psychiatric unit, as dozens of other U.S.

Across the nation, Medicaid is the single largest payer for mental health care, and in rural America, residents disproportionately rely on the public insurance program. But Medicaid cuts in the ...

Providers say they're seeing patients who lost access to care and critical medication end up in emergency rooms and jail, just weeks after state leaders and Health and Welfare approved the cuts.

A provision in expansive Senate Bill 4 would remove the requirement that counties provide property tax funding to community ...

The stakes are particularly high for people between the ages 50 and 64. ​ ...