Ellensburg
Costco is partnering with a nonprofit to launch its own brand of Medicare.
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Arkansas’ next governor will likely help shape the state’s Medicaid expansion, which faces an uncertain future. The state requested permission to continue the program through the end of 2028 after the Trump administration denied its request to renew the program, which provides health coverage to more than 200,000 low-income Arkansans. When Medicaid was created in […]
Tennessee
A dozen small, rural Tennessee hospitals are at “immediate risk” for closure, potentially exacerbating a longstanding problem in a state with one of the highest hospital closure rates in the nation. The calculation, by The Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform, is drawn from examining multi-year hospital losses in institutions with limited assets. The […]
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About 200,000 low-income Arkansans could see major changes to their health coverage next year after the Trump administration recently informed state officials it will not renew a key Medicaid agreement with the federal government. The decision by federal officials, citing authority granted under President Donald Trump’s signature tax-and-spending law, suggests the GOP-led state’s predicament could […]
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As many as 300,000 low-income Hoosiers could be subject to Indiana’s new Medicaid work requirements, state officials estimated Tuesday. But key parts of the compliance and exemption process remain unfinished. The first deadline is less than two months away. Although the mandate takes effect Jan. 1, 2027, anyone applying for or renewing coverage that month […]
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The Alaska Department of Health announced the first group of projects to be awarded millions in federal funding from the Rural Health Transformation Program on Friday, ahead of an October deadline. Officials announced the first $4.5 million of the state’s $272 million in funding will be awarded to 19 projects serving communities statewide, with additional […]
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About 78,000 Arkansas girls and women between the ages of 15 and 44 lived in a county with nowhere to give birth and no obstetric physicians in 2024, according to a Tuesday report from the women’s and children’s advocacy group March of Dimes. Almost half of Arkansas’ 75 counties are maternity care deserts, compared to […]
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Arkansas was the first Southern state to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, and the first to use a model that relied on private insurance to do so. But a recent decision by the Trump administration to not renew the program has created uncertainty for more than 200,000 low-income people receiving health coverage. And […]
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Last week marked the 61st anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid, and with so many dire threats to both health care programs, we would do well to reflect on their history and the promises delivered to millions of Americans since they were signed into law six decades ago in Independence, Missouri. On July 30, 1965, President […]
Missouri
Kansas Citians who buy health insurance through hearthcare.gov can expect to pay much more for monthly premiums next year. According to preliminary rate filings submitted to state insurance regulators in Missouri and Kansas, every insurance company selling individual plans in the region through the Affordable Care Act marketplace wants to raise prices in 2027. Across […]
