Dear Savvy Senior: If my mother needs to move into a nursing home, what are the eligibility requirements to get Medicaid coverage? — Caretaking Son Dear Caretaking Son: The rules and requirements for ...

Medicaid is a federal-state joint program which offers health insurance coverage to low-income seniors, children, and those who have disabilities. It also covers care inside a nursing home for the ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Advocates for disabled people and caregivers said they were insulted by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s allegations that Medicaid programs are "rife with fraud." ...

If you or someone you love wants to age at home — and nearly 90 percent of older Americans do — there’s a number you should know: $2.3 trillion. That’s how much could be cut from Medicaid under ...

Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that provides health coverage to low-income individuals, including children, pregnant women, people with disabilities and seniors. For seniors, it helps ...

Mehmet Oz, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator, is ordering all states to step up their efforts to ...

The plan would shift much long-term care from Medicaid to Medicare. It would for anyone with a significant need for care but ...