Tara covers the business of health care. Her stories focus on hospitals, doctors, and how their business practices affect patients — especially when private equity gets involved. She also writes about ...

If Medicaid funding is significantly reduced, states may struggle to afford providing the current scope of required benefits for older adults and adults with disabilities, much less optional Medicaid ...

Medicaid recipients who are disabled or have a chronic illness will not have to prove they are unable to work to be exempted from new work requirements that take effect next year, a federal judge ...

On May 22, House Republicans passed their budget reconciliation omnibus — the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” — which would cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid, among other ...

Through the Medicaid Estate Recovery program, federal regulations allow states to attempt to recover some long-term care, hospital, and medication costs from an individual’s estate after their death.

Selling a house to buy a new one sounds like a clean swap, but for a widow on Medicaid a single missed deadline can erase ...