As the 90-day session comes closer to an end, the idea of Medicaid expansion isn't looking very promising this year in ...

The talk of such dramatic changes to the federal-state program has Mississippi lawmakers concerned – and hesitant to push ...

Social Security and Medicare have historically been considered untouchable because the main beneficiaries of those two ...

Advocates have gathered at the Alabama Statehouse to urge lawmakers to reconsider their long-held reluctance to expand ...

Mississippi lawmakers are unlikely to expand Medicaid this year as they wait to see how federal funding for the program might change. Both the House and Senate have "dummy bills" related to ...

After two rounds of votes, the bill passed with a vote of 217 to 215. The bill proposes $2 trillion in cuts from the budget which could take funding from social programs like Medicaid. With one in ...

Mississippi— has traditionally been the recipient of more federal dollars per capita than any other. We’ve lived off the ...

Some of those reductions could explicitly target Medicaid long-term services and supports (LTSS), such as personal assistance ...

The nation’s poorest state — Mississippi — has traditionally been the recipient of more federal dollars per capita than any other commonwealth. We’ve lived off the federal spending spigot ...

Despite national pressure to reduce these types of C-sections, Mississippi’s rate has stayed high across the last decade — ...

Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Tennessee all have submitted waivers to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to launch Medicaid work programs, Tolbert said. About 2 in 3 ...