It's not just youth — Iowa's Medicaid program is now banned from covering gender-affirming care for adults, too. House File 1049 prevents Medicaid from paying for hormone therapies or gender-affirming ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Iowa’s Medicaid program is projected to face tens of millions of dollars in deficits in coming years, ...

Iowa's Medicaid program will no longer pay for gender-affirming surgeries and hormone therapies for transgender Iowans, under a bill that Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed into law. The law, House File ...

The continuing growth in states’ Medicaid programs has placed a severe financial strain on state budgets. In fiscal year 2024, Medicaid was the largest category of total state spending, consuming 29.8 ...

The funding — $50 billion spread across the country — comes from federal Republicans' tax policy and federal budget ...

Iowa has a new law that will require tens of thousands of Medicaid recipients to fulfill work requirements or risk losing their health care. But the work requirements won't kick in until the state ...

The proposal, submitted to the Rural Health Transformation Program, is designed to make health care more accessible in rural ...

Three private insurers — AmeriHealth Caritas Iowa, Amerigroup Iowa and UnitedHealthcare of the River Valley — are now managing Iowa’s $5 billion Medicaid program, according to a report from The ...

Iowa's Medicaid program is projected to face tens of millions of dollars in deficits in coming years, prompting warnings from the state auditor. State health officials and Republican leaders countered ...