Medicaid enrollments reached unprecedented levels when Congress temporarily blocked states from kicking people off of the health insurance plan during the pandemic. But that policy has ended, and now ...
The cases of 72,802 Medicaid beneficiaries in Arkansas were closed at the end of April because they either didn't return requested information necessary to determine their eligibility or are no longer ...
A public health expert said Arkansas is a "cause for concern" as federal protections of citizens on Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) put in place at the start of the ...
In June 2018, when Arkansas became the first state in the nation to implement work requirements for certain Medicaid beneficiaries, Governor Hutchinson was triumphant. “We’ve wanted to establish a ...
Arkansas was among the 10 states with the most children in rural areas relying on Medicaid for health insurance in 2023, and was one of only six with more than half of its rural children on Medicaid, ...
SEEMA VERMA: The Trump administration's head of Medicaid appeared in Little Rock in 2018 to grant Arkansas's request to create a work requirement. Credit: BENJAMIN HARDY Arkansas, meanwhile, is now ...
On October 1, 2023, Arkansas became the second state, just behind Idaho, to complete the process of redetermining eligibility for Medicaid enrollees whose coverage was extended as part of the COVID-19 ...
We're talking about Medicaid here on 40 20 nineties on the record. Gavin sick is here with us from the Arkansas Department of Human Services, the Chief of Communications. Now, uh Gavin, tell us *** ...
Brian Hyatt, MD, chair of the Arkansas State Medical Board, has been suspended from participating in Arkansas’ Medicaid program following fraud allegations, the Arkansas Democrat Gazette reported ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – More than 70,000 ...
Arkansas' proposed Medicaid budget for the fiscal year starting July 1 is based on the federal government ending its public health emergency, Department of Human Services Secretary Cindy Gillespie ...
New federal rules will require more than 18 million Medicaid enrollees nationwide to show they’re working, volunteering, or ...