Human Services Department opposed the bill; Arkansas remains only state without some version of this coverage option ...

The governor supported a bill to pay providers more for maternal health care services, but torpedoed an effort to extend ...

A bill to extend Medicaid coverage for postpartum mothers failed in its Senate committee hearing on Wednesday.

States increasingly struggling to cover the rising cost of popular GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic and Zepbound are ...

Under an emerging Republican plan to require some Medicaid recipients to work, between 4.6 million and 5.2 million adults ...

Some bills have stalled while others remain alive, including a proposal in Arkansas requiring GLP ... for all state- and federally funded Medicaid programs, costing taxpayers as much as $35 ...

Already, West Virginia and North Carolina ended programs in 2024 that ... including a proposal in Arkansas requiring GLP-1s to be covered under Medicaid when prescribed specifically for weight ...