Health Insurance and Costs

Heather Preston, an Iowa mom of five adopted sons with behavioral health needs, struggles to find care due to waitlists, low Medicaid funding, and a lack of therapists across the state.

Members of the House Energy and Commerce committee are slated to begin marking up key parts of the GOP bill on Tuesday.

In areas like California’s rural Shasta County, school campuses may be the most effective places to care for children’s mental health needs, and such care will now be covered by insurance.

Thousands of court records analyzed by the Journal Sentinel show, there’s an incentive to tip the scale toward an insurer and recommend denials.

Some families with private insurance have been left behind by the major health care reforms of the last few years, putting them at risk of high medical bills after having babies.

A laundromat in Smith River became a crucial entry point for reporting on undocumented farmworkers' health care access in California's rural north.

Open records requests revealed something that I didn’t expect to find. I assumed that state health agencies handled state health programs. I was wrong.

Good mining jobs with good benefits can counterintuitively hurt access to care.

For nearly two decades, the Medicaid Estate Recovery Program in Texas has filed repayment claims against Medicaid recipients after they die, threatening the inheritances of vulnerable Texans.

Vaping and other smokeless alternative forms of nicotine have proliferated as cigarette substitutes, creating in turn new types of addiction in adolescent users.