As part of their effort to pass a massive tax, immigration and spending cuts package, House Republicans are eyeing plans to shave billions from the federal budget. Some of those cuts could affect ...

New mandates proposed for megabill would likely force states to revamp how they finance their programs or cut benefits.

States have long used taxes on hospitals and nursing homes to increase federal matching funds. If Republicans end the tactic, ...

Democratic state legislators have embarked on long shot bids to preserve Medicaid expansion as threats of massive federal cuts hang over the program for low-income people. Forty states and the ...

The Jobs and Opportunities for Medicaid Act, adds a 20-hour weekly work or volunteer requirement for Medicaid enrollees ...

(The Center Square) – As congressional Republicans struggle to find ways to reduce federal spending on Medicaid without affecting vulnerable people, some have eyed shifting part of the cost ...

House Republicans are considering upending the way some states fund their Medicaid programs as they scour for ways to find billions of dollars in savings from the health program. They are looking ...

Congressional budget plans could set the stage for hundreds of billions of dollars in federal cuts to Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), the joint state-federal ...

Draft legislation filed Sunday night, projected to save the government more than $900 billion, would cost millions of people ...

A key Congressional committee pressed ahead Tuesday on a bill that could slash hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending, potentially leaving millions of Americans without health ...

That’s due, in part, to the fact that the 10 states that have not chosen to expand Medicaid lean red (with the exception of Wisconsin where the GOP-controlled legislature has long blocked ...

Medicaid costs roughly $900 billion taxpayer dollars per year, with the federal government shouldering roughly two-thirds of that spending and state governments covering the rest. With experts ...