A state official Wednesday briefed lawmakers on the state’s plans to spend just over $200 million in federal grants meant to ...

A recent KFF report showed that Alabama Medicaid enrollees leads the nation in receiving contraceptives from public health departments. Alabama Public Health Officer Dr. Scott Harris said he is not ...

An Alabama Senate committee approved a bill Wednesday that would require the Alabama Medicaid Agency and Department of Human ...

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 ...

The drop comes just after enhanced tax credits that helped reduce the cost of getting health insurance expired last month.

Amid an $85 million Medicaid deficit, Alabama lawmakers moved to allocate part of the state’s BP oil spill settlement to address the problem, the Birmingham Business Journal reported. On Wednesday the ...

FLORENCE, Ala. -- Sometimes, in a quiet moment between appointments, Dr. Carson Cruise runs the financial numbers through his head. They make a cold but compelling case: If he dropped all of the ...

Are robots really going to do ultrasounds in Alabama? During a health care roundtable at the White House on Friday, Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, ...

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Will Boyd is advocating for expanding Medicaid and broadband service, prison reform and high speed rail service — but he was also critical of what he said ...

Overall, Black women with breast cancer benefitted less from Medicaid expansion than other groups because they are ...