Yahoo

Arkansas Medicaid unrolling disabled adults

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Arkansas parents of adult children with Down syndrome and their providers say they’re concerned by unexplained gaps in Medicaid coverage. Families on Medicaid need to ...
PBS

Arkansas Medicaid recipients struggle to keep their coverage

Major corporate funding for the PBS News Hour is provided by BDO, BNSF, Consumer Cellular, American Cruise Lines, and Raymond James. Funding for the PBS NewsHour Weekend is provided by … More Major ...
Arkansas Times

Arkansas program providing at-home visits for high-risk pregnancies to expand to Paragould

A Medicaid program that aims to improve care for pregnant Arkansans is expanding, with further growth in the works down the ...
Yahoo

Biden administration says premiums for Arkansas Medicaid expansion must end in one year

In June 2018, when Arkansas became the first state in the nation to implement work requirements for certain Medicaid beneficiaries, Governor Hutchinson was triumphant. “We’ve wanted to establish a ...
Arkansas Times

Arkansas’s 2018 Medicaid work requirement debacle holds lessons for Georgia as it rolls out similar policy

SEEMA VERMA: The Trump administration's head of Medicaid appeared in Little Rock in 2018 to grant Arkansas's request to create a work requirement. Credit: BENJAMIN HARDY Arkansas, meanwhile, is now ...
KY3

Arkansas only state to not expand postpartum Medicaid coverage from 60 days to 12 months

HARRISON, Ark. (KY3) - Six states share a state line with Arkansas, and recently, all six of those states have elected to change the Medicaid benefit for postpartum care from 60 days to 12 months.
MM&M

Arkansas’ governor says Medicaid extension for new moms isn’t needed

Six weeks after an emergency cesarean section, with her newborn twins still in neonatal intensive care, Maya Gobara went to a pharmacy in West Little Rock, Arkansas, to fill a prescription. “The ...
PBS

Arkansas Medicaid recipients fight to stay covered after federal protections end

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 now ...
al.com

Alabama lawmakers open to Arkansas-style Medicaid expansion: How it works

As Alabama lawmakers appear to warm up to the idea of Medicaid expansion, Arkansas has emerged as a potential model for the program. The Alabama Hospital Association has previously stated they are ...

‘Agreement’ means pardoned nursing home chain owner shouldn’t have to serve time in Arkansas, his attorneys argue

The owner of a failed nursing home chain who was pardoned by President Donald Trump shouldn't have to serve his Arkansas sentence for Medicaid fraud and tax evasion, because there was an "express ...
KTHV

Arkansas woman sentenced after committing Medicaid fraud

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An Arkansas woman has now pleaded guilty for her involvement in Medicaid fraud. According to reports, 52-year-old Shaona Mizell of Paragould was a personal care aide who billed ...