Medicaid’s prescription for health includes food and housing in some states

A pillar of the nation’s social safety net since the 1960s, Medicaid is the largest public source of health insurance. Now, it is becoming something more. A growing number of states are ... Read More

Wisconsin Medicaid program will offer housing, meal support to some patients

The state is joining others in addressing "social determinants of health," non-medical needs that can impact health outcomes. Read More

N.C. eyes new use of Medicaid to expand health services provided to incarcerated people before their release

By providing Medicaid coverage both before and after release, North Carolina hopes to reduce harmful disruptions to health care for justice-involved individuals, which state leaders say has the ... Read More

Health Insurer Stocks Tumble on Medicaid Enrollment Concerns

Health insurance provider shares fell Wednesday after Centene executives raised concerns about Medicaid enrollments. Read More

Amid Medicaid's 'unwinding,' many states work to expand health care access

States have been culling their Medicaid rolls since pandemic coverage protections expired last year. But more than a dozen states have also expanded access for lower-income people, including children. Read More

Expanded access to food stamps, health care becomes law in Alaska

Claire Stremple Alaska Beacon. More Alaskans will be eligible for food stamps and access to health care for school-age children and young adults will increase under a bill that be ... Read More

State expands Medicaid to non-medical services

Many people enrolled in the state’s Medicaid program will soon be eligible to receive a host of non-medical services that could improve their overall health, including housing and nutrition assistance ... Read More

With new federal waiver, Illinois expanding Medicaid to nonmedical services

JB Pritzker said at a recent news conference ... those covers “health-related social needs,” or HRSN services. That includes such things as housing and food assistance for Medicaid enrollees ... Read More

Poorest Americans: State Medicaid offices target homes of dead people to recoup health care costs

Rather, it was part of a routine process the federal government requires of every state: to recover money from the assets of dead people who, in their final years, relied on Medicaid, the ... Read More

How Undoing the Affordable Care Act Would Affect Americans’ Health Care

Pending the outcome of the 2024 presidential and congressional elections, the fate of the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, may hang in the balance. Read More

How to Get a Mounjaro Prescription Online in 2024: Our Expert Guide

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Upending a longstanding paradigm, cardiologists embrace ZIP codes, not race, to predict heart risk

PREVENT, its creators acknowledge, is an experiment. If it can retain accuracy in predicting heart disease risk without using race, that is considered one success. It’s not meant to solve all of ... Read More