Researchers at Indiana University found that Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act could save the government money.

When pressed again, Holcomb said the Senate bill was too much of a moving target to provide specific data.

Even though most insurers cover the medicine women need to avoid withdrawal while pregnant, they require prior authorizations which can be riddled with bureaucratic hold-ups and clerical errors.

For the nearly 700 rural hospitals in the United States on the brink of financial collapse, relatively small amounts of money can be the difference between life and death.

The proposal would require members to work, train, study or volunteer for up to 20 hours per week, unless they can show they meet certain exemptions.

New federal health care legislation could result in large cuts to Medicaid. Schools often rely on these funds for special education and other health services.

The fraud uncovered in Indiana include transportation billing for trips that never happened, money laundering and illegal opioid prescribing.

Medicaid spending on three important medications used to treat opioid addiction increased 136 percent nationwide between 2011 and 2016.

If approved, the plan requires HIP members to put in time each week working, job hunting, job training or studying-or risk having their health care suspended.

The reductions, along with a series of tax cuts, are part of an ambitious attempt from the administration to balance the federal budget in the next ten years.