Medicaid

• KFF Health News: Nursing Home Beds Are Becoming More Scarce

  September 23, 2026: The San Vicente de Paúl Nursing Home in the South Bronx hasn’t admitted a patient since December 2024. ArchCare, which operates the facility, has reduced its capacity from 120 available beds to 53 and plans to shrink it further. Another ArchCar...Read more >

• KFF Health News: People With Disabilities Fear Service Cuts as Trump’s DOJ Questions Legal Protections

  August 03, 2026: Amanda DeSimone-Shabrack relies on a home healthcare aide to help her high-needs autistic 12-year-old son. Virginia’s Medicaid program covers the assistance, enabling her to work as both an education technology specialist and a professor, run erran...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Medicaid Insurers’ Contracts on the Line in Tight Governor’s Race

  July 30, 2026: One of America’s most competitive gubernatorial races could settle a heated argument over whether private insurance companies should run Medicaid. The race is in Iowa, whose Medicaid program has been plagued with controversy since 2016, when the...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Trump’s Personnel Agency Says It Will Remove Some Identifying Info as It Sweeps Up Medical Records

  July 22, 2026: The Trump administration is forging ahead with a controversial plan to collect the medical records of millions of federal workers and retirees, as well as their family members. The Office of Personnel Management said in a notice posted last month ...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Facing Funding Losses, States Call Out Big Businesses With Employees on Medicaid

  July 15, 2026: As the Trump administration’s January deadline looms for states to enforce new Medicaid work requirements, some state lawmakers are turning the tables by pushing to publicly name the largest companies that have employees enrolled in the government ...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Real Estate Investors Profit From Long-Term Care While Residents Languish

  April 24, 2026: Leslie Adams’ mother, Shirley, died after developing infected bedsores at Lakeview Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, according to a lawsuit he filed. “She had wounds that no one could explain,” he testified. A court awarded the family $17 mill...Read more >

• KFF Health News: New Federal Medicaid Rules Require One Month of Work. Some States Demand More.

  April 16, 2026: Millions of people who apply for Medicaid in the coming years will have to prove they’ve been working, going to school, or volunteering for at least a month before they can gain or retain health insurance through the government program. But Repu...Read more >

• KFF Health News: New Medicaid Work Rules Likely To Hit Middle-Aged Adults Hard

  February 11, 2026: Lori Kelley’s deteriorating vision has made it hard for her to find steady work. The 59-year-old, who lives in Harrisburg, North Carolina, closed her nonprofit circus arts school last year because she could no longer see well enough to complete ...Read more >

• KFF Health News: These 3 Policy Moves Are Likely To Change Health Care for Older People

  January 23, 2026: Month after month, Patricia Hunter and other members of the Nursing Home Reform Coalition logged onto video calls with congressional representatives, seeking support for a proposed federal rule setting minimum staff levels for nursing homes. Final...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Solving the Home Care Quandary

  January 08, 2026: You’re ready to leave the hospital, but you don’t feel able to care for yourself at home yet. Or, you’ve completed a couple of weeks in rehab. Can you handle your complicated medication regimen, along with shopping and cooking? Perhaps yo...Read more >