Alabama Medicaid Agency: Medicaid portal now accessible
Access to the State of Alabama’s Medicaid portal has been temporarily closed. This closure comes after a federal loan and grant funding freeze issued by President Donald Trump. No word on what this closure will mean for Medicaid and SNAP benefit recipients.
Access to Alabama Medicaid portal restored
Access to the State of Alabama’s Medicaid portal has been restored after being temporarily closed Tuesday. The portal closure came after a federal loan and grant funding freeze issued by President Donald Trump.
Alabama Medicaid program reopens
Alabama Medicaid program reopens
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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.”
States lose access to Medicaid payment portal amid Trump federal aid freeze
State Medicaid programs across the country reported Tuesday they had lost access to federal payment portals one day after President Trump announced a freeze on federal grants and aid. By the late
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Medicaid expansion not a priority, Alabama House leader says
The state's largest insurer has advocated for using Medicaid expansion dollars to pay for private plans for people in the coverage gap.
Medicaid Portals Down After Donald Trump Funding Freeze
After President Donald Trump ordered a freeze on federal grants and loans, Medicaid's portals went down Tuesday afternoon, causing recipients to panic about their health insurance coverage. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the Medicaid outage Tuesday on X, formerly Twitter, but said payments would not be impacted.
Local non-profit leaders weigh in on federal funding freeze
The Trump Administration announced a halt on federal funding for loans and grants Monday to take effect Tuesday, but a federal judge stopped the funding freeze minutes before it was supposed to be
State senators, introduce bipartisan effort to expand Medicaid in Georgia
The legislation, Senate Bill 50, would expand access to medical coverage to Georgians making less than 138% of the federal poverty limit and would request a waiver to do so from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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Medicaid expansion not a priority, Alabama House leader says
The leader of the Alabama House of Representatives said Thursday that Medicaid expansion will not be one of the chamber’s priorities for the 2025 legislative session, but that changes to the ...
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 Trump administration announced a federal funding pause, even as the White House said the program was exempted.
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.