Medicaid enrollees with substance use disorders have higher health costs than those without, around $1,200 compared to $550 ...

Medicaid recipients urged lawmakers on Tuesday not to include a work requirement for benefits in the state budget.

When we talk about cutting Medicaid, we're talking about dismantling this critical support system,” writes Ryan Hampton.

Blindly expanding a program that currently gives recipients little health benefit at a high cost makes no sense.

Nevertheless, whether potential cuts to Medicaid funding would in fact cut costs is unclear. Like with any medicine, reducing access to treatments used for addiction can make people seek care when ...

Long Island addiction-treatment providers said Monday that a congressional spending bill's $880 billion in proposed cuts, ...

Medicaid funds opioid addiction treatment for more than 1.8 ... But it creates new work requirements, heightened eligibility checks and cost-sharing mandates targeted mainly at the expansion ...

My addiction had stripped away everything ... When I finally found a bed in a treatment center, it was Medicaid that covered the cost. Without it, I would have been left to die on the streets ...

My addiction had stripped away everything ... When I finally found a bed in a treatment center, it was Medicaid that covered the cost. Without it, I would have been left to die on the streets, another ...