Segregation and lack of access have kept many Black Americans from learning to swim, which raises their risk of drowning.

Patients seeking mental health care are more likely to be on Medicaid than patients in more profitable areas of care, such as ...

KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national or local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a ...

Republicans, on the hunt for spending cuts, are eyeing a special kind of Medicaid tax that nearly every state uses to boost ...

As Politico reports, states will bear the burden of the plan, which includes new work requirements and curbs states’ ability to levy taxes on providers. The House Energy and Commerce Committee will ...

One school district is requiring unvaxxed schoolchildren exposed to the measles virus to quarantine for 21 days. Meanwhile, for only the second time in 30 years, the number of measles cases nationwide ...

The Colorado Sun: Colorado Mental Health Providers Say They Were “Betrayed” By Medicaid Behavioral health providers stepped up to offer new services to fill a gap, but the promise of higher ...

The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” platform has boosted the agenda of a conservative think tank that’s ...

Meanwhile, Axios reports the FDA is making plans to use AI in its decision-making. Also: President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order to bring down the cost of meds.

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Among its restrictions, Senate Bill 2880 says no state judge has jurisdiction to rule on its constitutionality, and if they were to do it anyway, they can be personally sued for $100,000, The Texas ...

Congressional Republicans are looking to cut at least $880 billion from a pool of federal funding that includes Medicaid — ...