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 is one of 38 states that radically changed the way it runs Medicaid over the past few years. The state moved about 600,000 people on the government-run health program into care that is managed by ...

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, ...

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 will no longer pay for gender-affirming surgeries and hormone therapies for transgender Iowans, under a bill that Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed into law. The law, House File ...

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 ...

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’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 ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Editor’s note: The Gazette reached out to the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services for answers ...

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 ...