With new federal rules about to shorten the window for retroactive Medicaid payments, lawmakers are reimagining ways to fast-track approval and provide more coverage for nursing homes exposed to ...

Editors note: This article has been updated to relect that the House bill passed just before 7 a.m. Thursday. After an early-morning vote Thursday in which Republicans narrowly pushed through a budget ...

States have long used taxes on hospitals and nursing homes to increase federal matching funds. If Republicans end the tactic, red states could feel the most pain. By Margot Sanger-Katz and Sarah Kliff ...

Mark Schiefelbein / AP Last week, President Trump signed the Republicans’ domestic policy bill into a law that will preserve the 2017 tax cuts, significantly increase funding for the administration’s ...