Oklahoma and South Carolina are among nine states that use some form of provider-based reference pricing to contain spending growth in their state employee health plans. Officials in those states note their plans’ strong market position and relative ease of administration as factors behind the success of these programs.

Senators grill Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on vaccines, abortion and Medicaid in his confirmation hearing to lead the Department of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt is set to make her debut behind the podium as the White House holds its first official news briefing Tuesday afternoon. Leavitt is certain to get questions related to the White House budget office’s decision to pause all grants and loans disbursed by the federal government to ensure its programs are consistent with President Donald Trump’s executive orders.

State Medicaid programs across the country reported Tuesday they had lost access to federal payment portals one day after President Trump announced a freeze on federal grants and aid. By the late

Explore Scott Bessent's confirmation as U.S. Treasury Secretary and his plans for tax cuts, economic growth, and fiscal policy.

A federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's freeze of federal funding. Will Medicare, Social Security or Medicaid be affected? Here's what to know.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans that could total trillions of dollars and cause disruptions in health care research, education programs and other initiatives.

Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, quickly condemned the Trump administration’s offer to roughly 2 million federal employees to resign in exchange for pay, saying in a Senate floor speech that the deal was a trick, that the president didn’t have the authority to make the offer and employees who resign may not be paid.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ‘s bid to be the nation’s top health official is uncertain after a key Republican joined Democrats to raise concerns over the nominee's skepticism of childhood vaccinations.

Dr. David Weisher, a neurologist at Schneider Regional Medical Center who held an election-night party at his home with members of the House of Representatives, the Florida attorney general, and other Trump advocates, said Congressional Delegate Stacey Plaskett should stop criticizing Trump and start making friends in the administration.

The White House budget office has ordered a pause in grants, loans and other federal financial assistance, according to a memo sent to government agencies on Monday, potentially paralyzing a vast swath of programs and sowing confusion and alarm among the array of groups that depend on them.

The state Supreme Court's ruling against the Education Trust Fund shut the door on families who used it to give their children unique education access