Jan. 24--A request for another $100 million to fund Medicaid claims raised questions on the Senate Finance Committee in the first days of the legislative session, but the answers will have to wait.

Gov. Rick Scott spent some time Thursday glad-handing with lawmakers on the House floor, and showing a little gratitude for their approval of a sales tax break for manufacturing equipment. But when ...

If you know anything about the state budget, it’s probably that there’s not a bunch of extra money lying around. You might even remember the University of Denver report last year that said lagging ...

Here's the good news: Thanks to federal stimulus money under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, states got a lot of help with their Medicaid spending. So much so that, for the first time in ...

ALBANY – It’s Medicaid sticker shock. The already high cost of treating the medical needs of the poor is soaring in New York – and taxpayers are getting hit with the bill. In just three months, the ...

Federal spending cuts to Medicaid would impact more than 80 million people who rely on the program. It may also have negative effects on the economy, new research finds. House Republicans have called ...

Nissim Aryeh was a familiar presence in many New Jersey nursing homes. Known to most as “Sam,” he would set up a table in the lobby and offer light refreshments along with free seminars to families ...

As a pediatric endocrinologist, I shepherd patients who are living with diabetes through the many changes that life brings. My clinic schedule is filled with toddlers with hypoglycemic unawareness, ...

Medicaid, the joint federal-state health insurance program that covers about one-in-five Americans, may be in for some of the biggest changes in its 60-year history. The tax, spending and policy bill ...