Lawmakers are hopeful expanding healthcare access will bring down Alabama’s climbing infant and maternal mortality rates.

Alabama legislators introduced a bill encouraging parents to put kids on employer-sponsored insurance plans instead of ...

“This bill would require the Alabama Medicaid Agency to cover screening and would also regulate how Medicaid covers prescription drugs used to treat postpartum depression,” the legislation states.

The Alabama Senate passed legislation aimed at getting pregnant women to the doctor sooner if they are eligible for Medicaid.

The Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative for Economic and Social Justice works to overcome race, class, cultural, ...

Lawmakers in Alabama's House have passed a bill expediting Medicaid for pregnant women in a state with one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the country. The bill now ...

A new law that would provide mothers using Medicaid with earlier access to prenatal care is making its way through the ...

It’s quite a shock for us,” said Troy Regional Medical Center CEO Rick Smith. The award was not something the hospital could ...

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Alabama dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of ...

One of the biggest concerns is the Maude Whatley Community Health Center, a vital health care facility serving Tuscaloosa and surrounding counties.

A battle over the future of health care in Alabama is raging between two political heavyweights — Blue Cross and Blue Shield ...