The Medicaid program in Alaska covers over 209,000 people or about a third of Alaska’s population. The Medicaid Expansion program that began in September of 2015, provided health insurance to over ...

Gender-affirming health care will soon become a covered benefit for Alaskans on Medicaid. The change is the result of a settlement in a lawsuit filed against the state health department that ...

Following a three-year pause on dropping Alaskans from Medicaid during the COVID pandemic, the state health department is now changing how it processes renewals, to keep more people enrolled. The goal ...

The wide geography poses special healthcare problems to Alaska, but the telehealth medicaid Alaska program removes such challenges since the location does not matter because telehealth medicaid Alaska ...

Alaska Gov. Michael Dunleavy has proposed cutting Medicaid by $249 million to reduce state spending on government, according to Alaska Public Media. Details about potential state changes to Medicaid ...

A lawsuit settlement over hormone treatment coverage means Alaska Medicaid cannot deny gender-affirming care. The initial class-action lawsuit came from a transgender woman who sued the Alaska ...

Oct. 22--The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services began suspending Medicaid payments Tuesday to C Care Services in Anchorage while investigation into the company and its owner continued. C ...

On a life-flight from Fairbanks to Anchorage, Sierra Ott’s newborn son Liam would not stop bleeding from a routine needle prick. Doctors in the Anchorage neonatal intensive care unit diagnosed him ...

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker (I) announced in July his plans to circumvent the State Legislature to expand Medicaid in his state using executive powers. Under Obamacare, states have the option to expand ...

ANCHORAGE, AlaskaANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska has awarded a contract to study whether the state can become the first in the nation to change its Medicaid program into a block grant system, officials ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A lawsuit has challenged the legality of a rule in Alaska’s Medicaid program excluding transgender residents from coverage for transition-related health care. The lawsuit arguing ...