by - January 28, 2025 1:01 pm
Gov. Sarah Sanders on Tuesday (Jan. 28) pitched the new Trump administration for a waiver to Arkansas’ Medicaid insurance program that will add a work requirement for able-bodied individuals. The…
by - October 9, 2023 3:20 pm
Arkansas’ Medicaid rolls fell by more than 53,000 in September, the final month for redetermination for eligibility, according to new figures released by the state Department of Human Services on…
by - September 10, 2023 7:20 am
Arkansas’ Medicaid rolls fell by more than 72,000 in August, according to new figures released by the state Department of Human Services on Friday (Sept. 8). Arkansas is unwinding, or…
by - August 31, 2023 2:06 pm
Arkansas is not one of the states affected by a Medicaid enrollment process that a federal agency says is inappropriately disenrolling some children because it is conducting automatic renewals at…
by - July 2, 2023 8:51 am
Nearly halfway through a six-month process to redetermine Medicaid eligibility for hundreds of thousands of Arkansans, Department of Human Services officials said they believe estimates of where the population would…
by - June 8, 2023 5:28 pm
The Arkansas Department of Human Services said it disenrolled 43,385 Medicaid beneficiaries whose coverage had been extended because of the COVID public health emergency in the month of May, the…
by - May 11, 2023 7:07 pm
A coalition of 23 national health-related nonprofits expressed concern Thursday (May 11) over Arkansas’ early Medicaid disenrollment numbers and called on Gov. Sarah Sanders to pause the process. The governor’s…
by - May 10, 2023 7:15 pm
Arkansas’ Medicaid program announced Monday (May 8) that it had disenrolled 72,802 individuals – the first major removal in three years that is occurring because of the end of the…
by - May 8, 2023 4:49 pm
The Arkansas Department of Human Services said it disenrolled 44,667 Medicaid beneficiaries whose coverage had been extended because of the COVID-19 public health emergency in the month of April –…
by - January 6, 2023 12:28 pm
Gov.-elect Sarah Sanders named Allison Bragg as Inspector General on Friday (Jan. 6). She will replace Elizabeth Thomas Smith in the role. Created in 2013, the mission of the Office…
by - December 21, 2022 10:00 am
Gov. Asa Hutchinson has joined 24 other Republican governors in calling for President Joe Biden to end the COVID-19 national health emergency. In a letter dated Dec. 19, the 25…
by - November 5, 2022 7:52 am
The Arkansas Department of Human Services says the federal government may end the COVID-19 public health emergency as early as the week of Nov. 7-11. If that happens, DHS will…
