Biden administration slow to act as millions booted off Medicaid, advocates say

Texas, Florida and Arkansas account for a quarter of the country's disenrollments.

Medicaid rolls are being cut. Few are finding refuge in ACA plans.

The Biden administration's prediction of a smooth transition from Medicaid to ACA marketplaces is a reality in a few states – but a myth elsewhere.

New law will put more dollars into pockets of older, low-income Mainers

About 19,000 Maine residents over 65, many of them low-income women living alone, will be made eligible for the program under the new law.

More than 1 million people dropped from Medicaid as states start post-pandemic purge of rolls

More than 93 million people were enrolled as of February.

Kicked off Medicaid: Millions at risk as states trim rolls

An unprecedented nationwide review of the 84 million enrollees over the next year will require states to remove people whose incomes are now too high for the federal-state program.

Pandemic swells Medicaid enrollment to record 80 million people

Committee approves bill on party lines to restore MaineCare benefits to noncitizen immigrants

The measure cleared the Legislature's Health and Human Services Committee with majority Democrats favoring the change and Republicans opposing it.

Direct-care agencies urge Maine lawmakers to raise reimbursement rates

The Legislature's Health and Human Services Committee is considering several bills that would boost the pay for those who provide direct care to Mainers with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Supreme Court calls off arguments over Medicaid work requirements, in light of Biden changes

It's the 5th time since the November presidential election that the change in administrations has led the court to dismiss or delay cases it had already agreed to hear.

Advocates for Maine dental bill press Mills for support

An advocacy group presented 1,500 signed postcards to the governor's office, urging her to back a measure to give dental benefits to adult Medicaid recipients. The change would help roughly 70,000 people receive preventive care.