Medicaid coverage swelled during the COVID-19 pandemic, with almost one in four Americans now covered by the health insurance plan for low-income people. But as many as 15 million people may be at ...

Graciela Camarena, program director for the Children's Defense Fund, left, assists Lucia Salazar with filling out Medicaid and SNAP application forms for her family in Pharr, Texas. (Michael Gonzalez ...

Medicare is a health insurance program for people age 65 or older and some people under 65 with certain disabilities or ...

Halfway through what will be the biggest purge of Medicaid beneficiaries in a one-year span, enrollment in the government-run health insurance program is on track to return to roughly pre-pandemic ...

Continuous enrollment in Medicaid was associated with a lower rate of a late-stage lymphoma diagnosis in children and adolescents/young adults (AYAs). However, fewer than half of Medicaid-insured ...

A federal judge has ruled that the government may share basic Medicaid information about people in the U.S. unlawfully with ICE.

Enrolling in Medicaid may have health benefits not only for low-income parents but also for their children, according to a Johns Hopkins analysis of more than 50,000 parent-child pairs. In the study, ...

Higher enrollment in Medicaid than in private insurance since the Affordable Care Act exchanges opened One reason for the big numbers is aggressive outreach campaigns in many states Hundreds of ...

The increase points to the program’s growing role not just as a safety net, but also as a foundation of U.S. health coverage. By Sarah Kliff Medicaid enrollment rose sharply during the pandemic, with ...

Discover how Medicare provides healthcare to those 65 and older. Learn about eligibility, coverage options, and how to enroll in this U.S. government program.

Buried in the paltry enrollment numbers for the Affordable Care Act that were released last week was something that came as a surprise to many — the success states are having signing people up for the ...

Centene's Medicaid enrollment grew by more than 1 million in the second quarter of 2021 as the Covid-19 pandemic drags on. In this photo, Chairman and CEO of Centene, Michael F. Neidorff attends 2019 ...