Mississippi lawmakers are unlikely to expand Medicaid this year as they wait to see how federal funding for the program might ...

Do you know how many people in Mississippi get medical help through Medicare and Medicaid? What you need to know about the programs, your community ...

Lawmakers heard from new Mississippi Division of Medicaid Executive Director Cindy Bradshaw on Monday in a joint legislative meeting with House and Senate members. Mississippi's current budget for the ...

The talk of such dramatic changes to the federal-state program has Mississippi lawmakers concerned – and hesitant to push ...

Ten states haven't expanded Medicaid yet. Two of them, Georgia and Mississippi, have seriously considered doing so. In an interesting coincidence, Medicaid itself costs around $880 billion a year ...

A lawmaker playing hardball may cost poor pregnant women a policy that would help them receive timely prenatal care.

The nation’s poorest state — Mississippi — has traditionally been the recipient of more federal dollars per capita than any other commonwealth. We’ve lived off the federal spending spigot ...

House Republicans are debating whether to cut funding for the committee overseeing Medicaid spending.

The federal share varies widely, from 60 percent in Massachusetts to 82 percent states such as Mississippi and West Virginia. Congress is mulling at least four ways to cut federal Medicaid spending.

Jennifer Shutt WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress have gotten a crash course in Medicaid during the last few weeks, as they ...