It's not just youth — Iowa's Medicaid program is now banned from covering gender-affirming care for adults, too. House File 1049 prevents Medicaid from paying for hormone therapies or gender-affirming ...

Iowa gets $209 million to improve rural health care by expanding access, recruiting more professionals and tackling cancer ...

The proposal, submitted to the Rural Health Transformation Program, is designed to make health care more accessible in rural ...

Iowa’s rural health care improvement plan, “Healthy Hometowns,” was awarded $209 million Monday as part of a federal funding ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Iowa’s Medicaid program is projected to face tens of millions of dollars in deficits in coming years, ...

The funding — $50 billion spread across the country — comes from federal Republicans' tax policy and federal budget ...

The continuing growth in states’ Medicaid programs has placed a severe financial strain on state budgets. In fiscal year 2024, Medicaid was the largest category of total state spending, consuming 29.8 ...

Iowa has a new law that will require tens of thousands of Medicaid recipients to fulfill work requirements or risk losing their health care. But the work requirements won't kick in until the state ...

Three private insurers — AmeriHealth Caritas Iowa, Amerigroup Iowa and UnitedHealthcare of the River Valley — are now managing Iowa’s $5 billion Medicaid program, according to a report from The ...

Iowa’s Medicaid program has seen rapid growth throughout the pandemic, which analysts have said puts it in “uncharted territory,” according to The Gazette. 1. Iowa’s Medicaid population has seen a ...

Iowa's Medicaid program is projected to face tens of millions of dollars in deficits in coming years, prompting warnings from the state auditor. State health officials and Republican leaders countered ...