The first shot taken at Medicaid, likely UnitedHealthcare coverage for Vertex's pain drug, and Optum’s wellness visit ad.

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When President Donald Trump ordered an across-the-board freeze on all grants, loans and federal financial assistance on ...

Smaller hospitals say a little-known government program to funnel more money to charity care is a lifeline in Kentucky — ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the controversial environmental lawyer turned public health critic, is set to find out on Tuesday if ...

The Justice Department has said that it told federal agencies to comply with a court's restraining order against the freeze.

President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday rescinded a Project 2025-inspired order that had abruptly frozen most ...

A nonprofit public advocacy group that focuses on healthcare and aligns with Democrats targets House Republicans as part of ...

A Kaiser Family Foundation analysis found that most adults covered by Medicaid in 2023 were already working or eligible for ...

There is a great opportunity to improve the health of our citizens this year by increasing payments to primary care physicians who take Medicaid patients. This will increase the number of these ...

Rural hospitals and their obstetrics wards have been closing at a rapid pace, leaving rural residents traveling farther for health care. Affordable housing is increasingly hard to ...

Musk, the world's richest man, has been granted broad latitude by President Trump to reduce the size of the federal government.