The Family and Social Services Administration said it can’t estimate how long people will be waiting for services because that depends on how many people are part of a priority category each month.

The added flexibility allows states to request Medicaid waivers to cover treatment in an institution for mental disease for certain adults and children. States have long been prohibited from using ...

During the summer of 2017, there were 82 counties at risk of not being covered for the 2018 policy year. State regulators managed to attract at least one insurer in those counties, but a recent market ...

Many CMS waivers that were set to expire in 2024 are being extended. The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services have extended the flexibilities designed to help states keep eligible individuals ...

Following the new Trump administration’s public solicitation of work requirement waivers in a letter to governors shortly after Trump’s inauguration, 2017 and the first part of 2018 saw an ...

Nina Owcharenko Schaefer is the director of The Heritage Foundation's Center for Health and Welfare Policy. Read her research. Medicaid—the welfare program that provides health care to vulnerable, low ...

As Congress continues to dither and delay entitlement reform, the Trump administration has empowered state lawmakers to take charge and do what Washington either can’t or won’t do: reform government ...