Providers who care for disabled and aging Pennsylvanians are bracing for potential federal Medicaid cuts they say could push chronically underfunded services past the brink. Advocates representing ...
The state of Pennsylvania has announced it will expand its Medicaid program under an agreement reached with the federal Department of Health & Human Services, even after the federal government ...
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett plans to accept federal funding to carry out a variation on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion plan, sources close to the governor have ...
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 ...
Some 3 million Pennsylvania residents are covered by Medicaid, the publicly funded health program marked for $900 billion in cuts over the next decade with congressional Republicans approving on ...
Zach Shamberg fears federal Medicaid adjustments approved in President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” will worsen a nursing home climate already strained by insufficient care reimbursements ...
HHS has approved Pennsylvania’s plan to use federal Medicaid expansion funding to launch Healthy Pennsylvania, a program that will promote affordable care and increase access to care for the uninsured ...
Thousands of low-income Pennsylvanians will face new barriers to weight-loss drugs like Ozempic under a move quietly announced by the Shapiro administration last month that’s projected to save the ...
A coalition of cancer survivors, health care providers, disability advocates and nonprofit leaders rallied outside of Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Dave McCormick’s Philadelphia office May 28, 2025, to ...
Five rural Pennsylvania hospitals, all in western parts of the commonwealth, could be at risk of closure or forced to scale back services if Congress passes the deep Medicaid cuts they’re ...