Federal workers protest Trump, Musk outside US Capitol with Maryland leaders
Maryland’s Democratic leaders warn that significant cuts to the federal workforce would be catastrophic for the state’s ...
Maryland families, disability advocates reveal what scares them most in Gov. Wes Moore’s proposed DDA cuts
Carmen Houston-Ludlam leads an active life. The 27-year-old, who has Down syndrome, stays busy with swimming, snowboarding, cheerleading and a job at MOD Pizza in Dunkirk, where she’s amassed a fan ...
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How did we get here?: Analysts, officials unsure how disability agency overspent
How did Maryland get to a point where the Developmental Disabilities Administration is facing a $200 million budget cut, one ...
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Medicaid Work Requirements Could Put 36 Million People at Risk of Losing Health Coverage
Unlike other states that added work requirements for existing enrollees, Georgia included work requirements as part of a waiver program to provide Medicaid to a new group of applicants [12] with low ...
Maryland Department of Health working on contingencies for loss of Medicaid funding after threat of freeze
The Maryland Department of Health is actively working on contingency plans in case the state isn’t able to access Medicaid ...
The Washington Post13d
Wash, dry, enroll: Helping people access health care, at the laundromat
Medicaid health plans, including those run by CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield in Maryland, UPMC in Pittsburgh and Jefferson ...
Associated Press14d
Judge temporarily blocks Trump’s funding freeze
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has signed a waiver to allow U.S. foreign aid ... access to child development block grants was cut off in Maryland and at least 20 states have been unable to access ...
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Assembly 'unlikely' to extend Medicaid for postpartum care, Robin Vos says
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services last year said it would not approve a waiver request for coverage shorter than one year. “The waiver request should be resubmitted to the Trump ...
The New York Times21d
Key Trump Nominee Hints at Push for Work Requirements in Medicaid
The comments suggested that the Trump administration was likely to seek a broad overhaul of how the federal government administers Medicaid, the joint federal-state health insurance program for ...
Calgary Herald21d
Flames lose Walker Duehr after forward is claimed on waivers by San Jose Sharks
Duehr, who is listed at 6-foot-2 and 210 lb., had previously gone unclaimed when he was placed on the waiver wire in October at the end of training camp. Ultimately, though, he couldn’t ...
The Hill21d
Advocates launch Medicaid defense
Liberal advocacy groups are ramping up efforts to protect the Medicaid program from potential cuts by Republican lawmakers and the new Trump administration. The Democratic group Protect Our Care ...