Rep. Marilyn Lands, a Democrat from Huntsville who flipped Alabama House District 10 last year running on reproductive rights, filed a bill this week to provide presumptive health

Many legal experts say the pause is an illegal impoundment and compromises Congress’s constitutional “power of the purse.”

Alabama Medicaid program reopens

The Montgomery City Council is expected to consider the resolution to guarantee part of Jackson Hospital’s debt on Friday.

Huntsville, filed a bill this week to provide presumptive health care to pregnant women in Alabama through Medicaid.

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 ...

Nathaniel Ledbetter’s comments came as Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama is pitching a proposal to use Medicaid expansion dollars to purchase private insurance plans

The DOJ found that the state must make community-based services accessible so that physically disabled children can avoid being segregated in nursing facilities.

The Trump Administration announced a halt on federal funding for loans and grants Monday to take effect Tuesday, but a federal judge stopped the funding freeze minutes before it was supposed to be

Access to the State of Alabama’s Medicaid portal has been temporarily closed. This closure comes after a federal loan and grant funding freeze issued by President Donald Trump. No word on what this closure will mean for Medicaid and SNAP benefit recipients.

Despite this legal entitlement, many transition-age youth and young adults leaving foster care lose their Medicaid coverage due to gaps in record keeping (for example, documentation of former foster care involvement and enrollment in Medicaid before age 18) and difficulties submitting the paperwork needed for Medicaid reenrollment.