Thousands of Iowans who receive health care benefits from the state’s Medicaid program could be required to work a certain ...

Iowa's Medicaid program will no longer pay for gender-affirming surgeries and hormone therapies for transgender Iowans, under a bill that Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed into law. The law, House File ...

Iowa Total Care, a subsidiary of Centene and the latest insurer to join the state program, took on coverage of Medicaid members July 1. The departure makes UnitedHealthcare the second managed care ...

The Capitol’s dome is seen during the first day of the legislative session at the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines on Jan. 13. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of ...

It's not just youth — Iowa's Medicaid program is now banned from covering gender-affirming care for adults, too. House File 1049 prevents Medicaid from paying for hormone therapies or gender-affirming ...

The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services announced on Friday that those receiving federal food assistance through the ...

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 ...

A UnitedHealthcare executive disagreed with statements from Iowa officials that the health insurer is departing the program because it didn’t want to comply with pay-for-performance measures, ...

Legislators may launch a study of how weight loss drugs might reduce costs in the Iowa Medicaid program. Jeffrey Boeyink is a lobbyist for Eli Lilly the company which has proposed a bill on the topic.

Joy and Tom Higgins hold a photo of daughter Kristin Higgins. A few weeks after Kristin died in 2024, they received a letter stating that any money Kristin left behind would have to be remitted to the ...

Three insurers managing Iowa’s $5 billion Medicaid program posted more than $100 million in losses in 2016, the first year private insurers took over the program, according to The Gazette. Iowa handed ...

Collection agents for the state of Iowa have sent letters seeking millions of dollars from the estates of at least two people with disabilities who died after spending most of their lives in a state ...