Sallie Crider feels grateful to be receiving $17 an hour to take care of her husband, who is legally blind and without use of his back and legs, through Nevada’s Medicaid program.

“It is very expensive,” said Jeffrey Beckham, the state budget director in Connecticut, where Medicaid coverage of the drugs for weight loss may be scrapped entirely. “Other states are coming to that ...

“It is very expensive,” said Jeffrey Beckham, the state budget director in Connecticut, where Medicaid coverage of the drugs for weight loss may be scrapped entirely. “Other states are ...

Longtime northern Nevada Representative Mark Amodei ... DOGE cuts, deportations, Medicaid, the Signal group chat controversy and much more. Where does Amodei stand on these issues?

Ohio Medicaid Director Maureen Corcoran gave state lawmakers a presentation at a March meeting of the Joint Medicaid Oversight Committee about the realities of adding the new administrative burden ...

Overall Medicaid spending on GLP-1 drugs — before partial rebates from drug manufacturers — jumped from $577.3 million in 2019 to $3.9 billion in 2023, according to a November report from KFF ...

And in a recent survey of state Medicaid directors conducted by KFF, a health policy research organization, they said cost and potential side effects are among their concerns.The debate over ...