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Bill to provide presumptive Medicaid coverage to pregnant Alabamians has bipartisan support
Rep. Marilyn Lands, a Democrat from Huntsville who flipped Alabama House District 10 last year running on reproductive rights ...
Mental health care for new moms is critical. And hard to access in Alabama.
This story first appeared in the Alabama Reflector. Last fall, Patricia called her counselor in a panic. A 29-year-old North Alabama mom, she was about to lose her Medicaid coverage, which was set to ...
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Alabama organizations scramble after attempted pause on federal grants
Many legal experts say the pause is an illegal impoundment and compromises Congress’s constitutional “power of the purse.” ...
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Bill would offer presumptive Medicaid coverage to pregnant women
Huntsville, filed a bill this week to provide presumptive health care to pregnant women in Alabama through Medicaid.
States say Medicaid access cut, White House says no payments disrupted
At least three U.S. lawmakers said on Tuesday healthcare providers were blocked from the Medicaid payment portal after the ...
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Opinion | No mother left behind: The case for expanding postpartum mental health care in Alabama
In Alabama, 20 percent of new mothers experience PPD, a rate significantly higher than the national average.
White House blames "outage" for locking out Medicaid, Head Start, health centers from funding site
The online system for federal health funding warned of delays due to executive orders after the Trump administration announced a freeze.
Payment System That Provides Medicaid Funding to States Stops Working, Officials Say
The outage at least temporarily jeopardized payments the federal government makes to state programs, and sowed uncertainty ...
What Alabama’s reliance on federal funding means for the state
Many of the largest federal funding sources are considered mandatory programs, meaning they can’t simply be cut or eliminated.