Medicaid issued approximately $1.1 trillion in improper payments over the past decade, states research by the Paragon ...

Much has been said about the health consequences of severe Medicaid cuts. A new analysis from the Commonwealth Fund considers ...

Medicaid is a popular program that covers 72 million people. The majority of U.S. adults across party affiliations oppose ...

Medicaid covers low-income Americans in all 50 states, as well as D.C. and the American territories, but the program’s benefits are farther reaching. Medicaid pays for around 2 in every 5 births ...

Mike DeWine said Wednesday at a Columbus Metropolitan Club event. The state expanded Medicaid eligibility in 2014, enrolling an additional 770,000 Ohioans. Nationally, 72 million Americans are ...

But Medicaid is a political flashpoint because of the core role it plays in the lives of millions of Americans—many of whom vote for Republicans—as well as state budgets and the healthcare ...

What we're talking about is rooting out the fraud, waste and abuse." Medicaid fraud units investigate fraud in 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands and ...

'There’s no room to absorb additional costs' in Maine’s health care system, one health care executive says. Medicaid, a federal health insurance program for low-income children and adults, is ...

The federal government pays its share of Medicaid funding based on a matching rate — covering a minimum of 50 percent of states’ Medicaid costs. Republicans have yet to detail how they might ...

As a joint program, the federal government matches at least 50% of state spending on Medicaid. But in some less wealthy ...