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 ...

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 ...

Recent literature has focused on the impact of the differential adoption by states of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. However, additional Medicaid policy dimensions exist where ...

Here are the differences in eligibility, coverage, costs, and enrollment periods between Medicare and Medicaid.

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 ...