Medicaid

George Mink Jr. is a health care outreach worker in Delaware County, Pa. He worries about what will happen when vaccines are no longer paid for by the federal government. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Health & Safety

6.8 million expected to lose Medicaid when paperwork hurdles return

12:34pm January 24, 2023

by Alan Yu | WHYY

Since early in the pandemic, people on Medicaid have been able to stay enrolled without reapplying. That will change in April and millions of eligible people will lose the coverage.

Courts

Owner of United Youth Care Services convicted in scheme to defraud state Medicaid

4:40pm January 19, 2023

by Paul Garber

A federal jury has convicted the owner of a former Greensboro mental health and drug treatment center of medical fraud charges. Donald Booker was part of an $11-million scheme that targeted people at risk of becoming homeless.

Susie Talevski has gone through years of legal back-and-forth with the state agency in Indiana that operates the nursing home where her father, Gorgi, resided before his death.

Health & Safety

A SCOTUS nursing home case could limit the rights of millions of patients

7:00am November 06, 2022

by Farah Yousry

An Indiana man's family sued a state-owned nursing home for alleged mistreatment. A U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case could determine the right of many Americans to sue government agencies.

Call workers employed by federal contractor Maximus strike outside of the call center in Bogalusa, Louisiana on Tuesday, Nov. 1.

Economy

Call center workers strike over pay and working conditions

7:05pm November 01, 2022

by Mary Yang

Call center workers at a federal contractor that handles calls about Medicare and the Affordable Care Act plans have staged a walkout in four states.

Politics & Government

Senate leader: NC hospitals' Medicaid proposal not 'serious'

1:13pm September 20, 2022

by Gary Robertson, Associated Press

North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger on Tuesday called an offer from state hospitals to expand Medicaid to hundreds of thousands of the working poor “not a serious proposal,” saying loosened re

Margaret Davis (left) and Delisa Williams (right) became acquainted when they moved into the Salvation Army Center of Hope shelter, just outside Charlotte, N.C. Both women receive federal benefits, but the monthly amounts aren't high enough for them to be able to rent an apartment.

High rents outpace federal disability payments, leaving many homeless

5:01am September 15, 2022

by Fred Clasen-Kelly

Supplemental Security Income, a federal program meant to be a financial floor for people unable to work, hasn't kept pace with inflation. Many recipients are homeless, unable to save for an apartment.

Tennessee's Medicaid program, TennCare, dropped Katie Lester and her son Mason (right), because of a clerical error in 2019. The Lester family was left uninsured for most of the next three years, including during the birth of youngest child Memphis (left)

They lost Medicaid when paperwork was sent to a pasture, signaling the mess to come

5:01am August 02, 2022

by Brett Kelman

Tennessee expects to soon disenroll about 300,000 people from Medicaid. But families like the Lesters have been entangled in bureaucracy and clerical mistakes, causing them to unfairly lose coverage.

Politics & Government

Medicaid expansion breakthrough within reach in N. Carolina

10:31am August 01, 2022

by Gary D. Robertson, Associated Press

Ana Elsy Ramirez Diaz holds her baby as he is seen by Dr. Margaret-Anne Fernandez during a checkup visit at INOVA Cares Clinic for Children in Falls Church, Va. A portion of the clinic's patients are insured through the Children's Health Insurance Program

Millions of kids qualify for Medicaid. Biden funds outreach to boost enrollment

1:05pm July 19, 2022

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

More than half of uninsured kids qualify for free coverage but don't know it. The government has released $49 million to get the word out, especially as the end of the COVID health emergency looms.

Henry Jones, who kept getting sicker after 11 years of homelessness, was admitted in 1991 into Christ House, one of the first medical respite programs in the country.

Medical respite offers refuge for homeless people recovering from illness

10:12am May 30, 2022

A growing number of private insurance companies are starting to invest in medical respite — a decades-old way of caring for homeless people. Here's what's driving the trend.