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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: The Gazette reached out to the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services for answers to questions for this story. Those answers were received after the story published. They were ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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