The Arkansas Department of Human Services warns it will have to furlough 1,500 employees and close county offices if the ...

Arkansas lawmakers are pushing to end the shutdown as the Department of Human Services could be faced with furloughing 1,500 ...

The Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) has announced significant impacts due to the ongoing federal government ...

Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the state's largest health insurer, is continuing to explore a "strategic affiliation ...

The Arkansas Department of Human Services expects to furlough up to 1,534 employees and temporarily close its local offices within the next week and a half if the federal government does not reopen, ...

Arkansas Department of Human Services Secretary Janet Mann has warned that additional layoffs and program disruptions will ...

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 ...

About 13% of Arkansans rely on SNAP benefits to eat. Arkansas DHS says they may need to find churches, family members, and ...

The Arkansas Attorney General announced Monday that three of seven people from the Mid-South were arrested for committing ...

What we’re seeing, at least on the Medicaid expansion issue, is how Republicans and Democrats can work together in Little Rock on their good days, and how they ought to work together in Washington at ...

LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Mike Beebe said Tuesday that he supports state expansion of Arkansas’ Medicaid program by 250,000 people, substantially swelling the rolls of the $4.8 billion program that already ...

On Oct. 9, Latonya Jackson, 51, of Fort Smith was arrested and pleaded guilty to one count of Medicaid fraud, a Class A ...