The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services has ended Medicaid coverage for certain weight-loss medications as of today.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania’s plan to stabilize its struggling rural health care systems will get a $193 million infusion as President Donald Trump’s administration implements a new five-year program th ...
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 ...