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Arkansas' Department of Human Services does not intend on withdrawing its already submitted "Pathway to Prosperity" waiver, which would implement a state Medicaid work requirement one year before ...
The newly signed “Big Beautiful Bill” could cut Medicaid enrollment by 114,000 in Arkansas and leave rural hospitals struggling to stay open.
The Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” makes huge changes to Medicaid, including rolling out work requirements nationwide for the first time.
Georgia’s program, called Pathways to Coverage, remains in effect. Over the 10 months Arkansas’ work requirement was in place, more than 18,000 people in the state lost Medicaid coverage.
President Trump’s tax-and-spending bill aims to require many Americans to work to collect Medicaid. Similar efforts in Georgia and Arkansas have largely fallen flat.
On Tuesday, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin announced two Medicaid fraud convictions and an arrest.
Arkansas advocates are warning that the proposed changes to SNAP, Medicaid, and housing assistance will harm families, and they are urging senators to oppose.
Medicaid enrollment has exploded in Arkansas over the last two decades, with enrollment increasing by nearly 150 percent since 2000 and spending up fivefold.
Advocates say Georgia's experience with a work requirement for Medicaid should serve as a warning to Republicans in Congress pushing a similar mandate.
Mr. De Liban and Mr. Hawkins are lawyers who successfully sued to stop Arkansas’s Medicaid work requirements. Many of the Republicans pushing for Medicaid work requirements — permanent program ...
Past experience suggests that adding work requirements to Medicaid will strip health services from millions of American without increasing employment.
This is the third article in a series of summaries of insurance legislation from the 95th Arkansas General Assembly.