MONTOGMERY, Ala. — A bill that would expedite Medicaid coverage and prenatal health care for low-income pregnant women in Alabama has advanced as lawmakers across the South try to address rising ...

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FILE - Dr. Max Rogers, the obstetrician-gynecologist at Grove Hill Memorial Hospital, poses for a photo, July 15, 2024, in Grove Hill, Ala. (AP Photo/Safiyah Riddle, File) MONTOGMERY, Ala. (AP) — A ...

MONTOGMERY, Ala. (AP) — A bill that would expedite Medicaid coverage and prenatal health care for low-income pregnant women in Alabama has advanced as lawmakers across the South try to address rising ...

Alabama House Expedites Medicaid for Pregnant Women, Joining Other States With High Mortality Rates MONTOGMERY, Ala. (AP) — A bill that would expedite Medicaid coverage and prenatal health care for ...

When Katie Silvia learned she was pregnant in November 2016, her first call wasn't to her obstetrician - it was to the Alabama Medicaid office. Her husband had received a letter from Blue Cross Blue ...

A hallway at Vaughan Regional Medical Center in Selma, Alabama on Tuesday, Sep. 3, 2024. A new analysis from KFF estimates that proposed federal cuts in a March 2025 U.S. House budget resolution could ...

The Alabama Medicaid Agency will ask the federal government to allow it to impose work requirements on the program’s relatively small number of able-bodied adults, drawing fire from critics who say ...

As Alabama’s struggling hospitals and uninsured residents face the unknowns of the coronavirus, political leaders say the state can’t afford to grant healthcare through Medicaid expansion to some of ...

The U.S. Department of Justice said Monday that it has entered into a settlement agreement with Alabama's Medicaid program to end a sobriety requirement for treatment of people with Hepatitis C.

Alabama Republicans for years have opposed expanding Medicaid eligibility. Now, they may be cracking the door. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey and legislative leaders said they are reviewing details of the ...