In 2013, my home state of Arkansas became the first Southern state to adopt Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. We didn’t simply accept what the federal government proposed, however. We ...
On October 1, 2023, Arkansas became the second state, just behind Idaho, to complete the process of redetermining eligibility for Medicaid enrollees whose coverage was extended as part of the COVID-19 ...
Six weeks after an emergency cesarean section, with her newborn twins still in neonatal intensive care, Maya Gobara went to a pharmacy in West Little Rock, Arkansas, to fill a prescription. “The ...
A federal agency has approved Arkansas' request to use Medicaid funds to pay for short-term stays for adults at psychiatric hospitals, something state officials say will expand low-income Arkansans' ...
Comments submitted to a federal agency in response to Arkansas' request to implement a work requirement for its Medicaid expansion program reiterated concerns that were expressed during an earlier ...
A group asking DHS to slow down on Medicaid disenrollments rallied at the Capitol on June 8. Credit: Mary Hennigan About 20% of children insured in Arkansas’ Medicaid program lost access during the ...
The Arkansas Department of Human Services warns it will have to furlough 1,500 employees and close county offices if the ...
What we’re seeing, at least on the Medicaid expansion issue, is how Republicans and Democrats can work together in Little Rock on their good days, and how they ought to work together in Washington at ...
LITTLE ROCK (AP) — More than 427,000 Arkansas residents were dropped from Medicaid in the past six months, as the state became among the first nationally to complete a post-pandemic eligibility review ...
ARKANSAS, USA — Upcoming cuts to Medicaid could shut down more than 50% of rural Arkansas hospitals, according to a report from the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform. Monika ...
Arkansas lawmakers are pushing to end the shutdown as the Department of Human Services could be faced with furloughing 1,500 ...
The Arkansas Attorney General announced Monday that three of seven people from the Mid-South were arrested for committing ...