Sometimes, in a quiet moment between appointments, Dr. Carson Cruise runs the financial numbers through his head. They make a ...

MONTOGMERY, Ala. (AP) — A bill that would expedite Medicaid coverage and prenatal health care for low-income pregnant women in Alabama has advanced as lawmakers across the South try to address rising ...

A hallway at Vaughan Regional Medical Center in Selma, Alabama on Tuesday, Sep. 3, 2024. A new analysis from KFF estimates that proposed federal cuts in a March 2025 U.S. House budget resolution could ...

The state’s dominant health insurer Wednesday pitched a health care plan to county commissioners that would use Medicaid expansion money to pay for private insurance plans for Alabamians without ...

An Alabama lawmaker who leads a state budget committee said President Trump’s tax cut and spending bill means Alabama will have to tighten programs that hundreds of thousands of families depend on for ...

A program to bring about an expansion of Medicaid in Alabama through a public-private partnership is being floated to state lawmakers. The plan, dubbed “All Health,” would use Medicaid expansion ...

Researchers and advocates warned last week that proposed Medicaid cuts in the massive tax-and-spending package that passed the U.S. Senate on Tuesday would devastate a region that relies heavily on ...

About 28,000 Alabamians lost Medicaid coverage in August, according to recent eligibility statistics from the Alabama Medicaid Agency AMA). And that brings the total number removed from the state ...

About 119,000 Alabamians were removed from Medicaid in the first three months after federal restrictions on disenrollment expired earlier this year, according to data published by the Centers for ...

The leader of the Alabama House of Representatives said Thursday that Medicaid expansion will not be one of the chamber’s priorities for the 2025 legislative session, but that changes to the state’s ...

An Alabama House committee has approved a bill that would grant Medicaid the authority to sue parents who fail to enroll their children in available employer-sponsored health insurance. The ...