#Medicaid

Data from 42,000 people with HIV suggest that income and Medicaid coverage play a role in unintentional weight loss.

When it comes to prevention, Medicaid also plays a role in lowering the burden of cancer among people living with HIV.

The United States might see one of the steepest increases in the country’s uninsured rate in years.

An eight-year review of medical records shows that PrEP persistence is associated with higher income and private insurance.

About 37% of uninsured Black Americans live in three states—Florida, Georgia and Texas—that chose not to expand Medicaid.

The laws governing traditional Medicare don’t provide for coverage of self-administered diagnostic tests.

They join a growing number of states to eliminate prior authorization requirements.

Plus: The White House moves to ensure that future ACA health plans cost less, protect those with chronic illness and don’t discriminate.

These encouraging results do not apply, however, to people who remain undiagnosed.

“These are some of the hardest-to-reach populations and those often last in line for medical care.”

For answers, check out these nine takeaways from the report “HIV in the U.S. Deep South: Trends From 2008–2019.”

In January, Biden opened this enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act. Plus: Those with a health plan can change their coverage.

Medicaid expansion was supposed to help funnel more people into hospitals that offer specialty care. So far, the data show it hasn’t.

In the wake economic crisis caused by COVID-19, Medicaid now covers nearly 1 in 4 Americans.

The Supreme Court upholds the Affordable Care Act for a third time. Here’s a look at responses from health care advocates.

A letter from 124 patient groups urges the White House to make drugs more affordable—and spells out how it can do so.