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President Donald Trump signed the “Big Beautiful Bill” into law on July 4, a measure that introduces changes to Medicaid ...
Arkansas interest groups expect lawmakers to address Medicaid, prisons, farming curriculum in regular session. Legislative priorities emerge. January 9, 2023 at 8:35 a.m.
The Arkansas DHS reports that the 2025 Summer EBT program has expanded to serve 326,000 children so far, up from 294,000 in its inaugural year.
Arkansas to raise mental health Medicaid pay. Regulatory changes aimed at mitigating growing crisis. December 26, 2022 at 4:53 a.m. by Neal Earley ...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A new Arkansas law will require the Arkansas Medicaid Program to increase reimbursement rates for certain dental services. The law looks to ensure that the underserved have ...
More than 230,000 Medicaid recipients in Arkansas have lost coverage since April. About a quarter of them would have lost coverage anyway because they now earn too much money or asked to be removed.
The 23-year-old mother of two is among the 140,000 people who have lost their Medicaid in Arkansas since April, when the state began unwinding a pandemic-era program that allowed more than 1 ...
Arkansas expanded Medicaid in 2014, becoming one of the first southern states to do so. It provided health insurance to over 250,000 uninsured people making less than 138% of the poverty line ...
Arkansas is the only holdout state that has not pursued the Biden administration's offer to extend Medicaid coverage to new moms for a year after they give birth.
The cases of 72,802 Medicaid beneficiaries in Arkansas were closed at the end of April because they either didn't return requested information necessary to determine their eligibility or are no ...
Arkansas to raise mental health Medicaid pay. Regulatory changes aimed at mitigating growing crisis. December 26, 2022 at 4:53 a.m. by Neal Earley ...
Medicaid enrollments reached unprecedented levels when Congress temporarily blocked states from kicking people off of the health insurance plan during the pandemic. But that policy has ended, and ...