Medicaid

The impact is heavily concentrated in states like Florida with high Latino populations. According to the UnidosUS report, Latinos represent a massive share of the projected newly uninsured.

One grant for nearly $8 billion is for the directed payment program for hospitals providing care to Medicaid patients.

Known as community health educators, outreach specialists, promotores de salud and other titles, they prevent seniors from fall through cracks amid an aging population and shortages of medical professionals.

Florida’s KidCare expansion has been stuck in legal limbo since February 2024. Since then, the number of uninsured children in Florida has risen to 400,000 — one of the highest state tallies.

A bicameral budget panel, authorized to make spending decisions while the Legislature is not in session, voted to sweep $32 million from the program due to a drop in enrollment.

It's been two months since the state dropped a suit against the federal government that was supposedly delaying the changes that would open health coverage to more than 42,000 children. Why? That's a mystery.

The audit, conducted by a Texas accounting firm, doesn’t address the ethical or legal questions surrounding a $10 million donation it received, only the accuracy of the foundation’s numbers.

Florida is now the fifth state to be identified for what the administration says is fraud, waste and abuse within the Medicaid program.

WUSF is asking Tampa Bay area residents about their ability to find dentists currently taking patients with Medicaid plans.

The Senate’s 80 hours of work per month and education requirements to maintain Medicaid benefits are not in the House companion bill.

Dentists, hygienists and researchers say a shortage of rural dental care professionals and worsening oral hygiene since the pandemic mean more kids are ending up in the emergency department for decay.

Opponents raise concerns that work requirements on Medicaid will lock out low-income parents from insurance.