Five rural Alabama hospitals are considered “at risk” of closing, according to a report from a reputable center for health ...

President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed July 4, slashes Medicaid with 80-hour-a-month work rules for some recipients and adds a $50 billion fund for rural hospitals.

An Alabama lawmaker who leads a state budget committee said President Trump’s tax cut and spending bill means Alabama will have to tighten programs that hundreds of thousands of families depend on for ...

A monthly average of 750,000 people in Alabama received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits last year.

The so-called "One, Big Beautiful Bill" includes the largest cuts to Medicaid in the program's 50-plus years. What to know in ...

Federal rules govern Medicaid programs, which rely on federal funding. However, each state’s programs are tailored to its ...

President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” in the U.S. House would change the way some Medicaid recipients qualify for ...

Advocates of Medicaid expansion in Alabama said adding low-income adults to the program could create 28,500 jobs in the state, according to a study from the Commonwealth Fund, a health care policy ...

While the Alabama Hospital Association has pushed for Medicaid expansion for years, the issue is taking on some urgency this year. State hospitals depend on federal funding known as ...

Alabama’s total Medicaid spending has increased from $5.2 billion to $5.8 billion in the past four years as enrollment rose more than 15%.