Iowa Medicaid covers about 700,000 Iowans, including low-income children and families, people with disabilities and older adults. At the same time, policymakers are weighing potential federal funding ...

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 ...

Sand said the report was not a full audit, and if additional procedures had been carried out, more findings may have been ...

IOWA’S NEWS LEADER. WELL, SOME IOWANS WITH MEDICAID COVERAGE ARE WORRIED ABOUT LOSING THE CARE THEY RECEIVE BECAUSE THAT PROGRAM IS ENDING AND A NEW STATE PROGRAM IS BEGINNING. THE STATE SAYS THE NEW ...

State Auditor Rob Sand said pharmacy benefit managers who work with Iowa's Medicaid program may be overcharging taxpayers by ...

Delta Dental of Iowa and DentaQuest will begin providing dental coverage for Iowa Medicaid members under a new contract.

Governor Kim Reynolds says a temporary tax hike on H-M-Os and the companies that manage Iowa’s Medicaid program is a last resort to dealing with red ink in the Medicaid budget. The bill raising the ...

WASHINGTON, Iowa — Iowa City Democrat Christina Bohannan said she knows what it’s like for rural families to lose health care. She recounted growing up in a mobile home, in a rural town of 700 people ...

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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 ...

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 Auditor Rob Sand, a Democrat, accused Republican ...