Budget leaders in the General Assembly say they understand the importance of Medicaid, but they believe the program has gotten too big for the state to afford.

Colorado lawmakers will need to close a nearly $1.5 billion gap in the state budget in the coming weeks, hundreds of millions ...

The Iowa House passed a bill Thursday retroactively raising the premium tax rate for health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to make up for a Medicaid budget shortfall — a move Democrats […] ...

The Iowa House passed a bill Thursday retroactively bumping the premium tax rate for health maintenance organizations to make ...

The fiscal picture for Colorado’s state government has somehow gotten even murkier — and potentially much worse.

Organizations that treat claims technology as discretionary spending will continue losing a significant percentage of their ...

The March revenue forecasts from economists in both the governor’s office and the Colorado legislature show that cuts to the 2026-27 budget are far from over. Economists with the Legislative Council ...

The Idaho Legislature’s budget committee introduced a new health and human services budget Thursday that includes $21 million ...

The legislature’s Joint Budget Committee has already been slashing spending for weeks as it works to draft the state’s ...

The latest revenue forecasts from economists at the state Capitol show that the state’s budget predicament has worsened — by hundreds of millions of dollars more. That, in turn, means cuts programs ...

The state's funding crisis is driven by a third-party payment system in which roughly 90 cents of every American health care ...

Federal grant delays, cancellations, and rescissions are curtailing HIV testing, surveillance, and community engagement, compounded by reduced CDC surveillance activity and an HIV workforce unable to ...