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Vice President J.D. Vance arrives before President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Vance says administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns

By Michelle L. Price and Ali Swenson - Associated Press

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz listens as President Donald Trump speaks about TrumpRx in the South Court Auditorium in the Old Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

‘Take the vaccine, please,’ a top U.S. health official says in an appeal as measles cases rise

By Matt Brown - Associated Press

Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, speaks during an event about drug prices with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Rural health fund money to be rolled out in 2026

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Bill Swick sits on the chair at his home in Minooka, Ill., Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Patients go without needed treatment after the government shutdown disrupts a telehealth program

By Ali Swenson and Obed Lamy - Associated Press

Governor Greg Abbott signs Make Texas Healthy Again legislation alongside U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Texas Republican lawmakers at the Capitol, which requires the food industry to remove certain additives or add warning labels for those products sold in Texas, in Austin, Texas, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. (Mikala Compton/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

RFK Jr. finds more than 100 ways to make America’s children healthier

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, testifies at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) ** FILE **

Trump administration to remove up to 2.8 million duplicative enrollees on federal health care plans

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Special needs teacher Deja Nebula sets up an art installation displaying names and faces of people who have been detained, deported, or sent to offshore camps during ICE raids in Southern California, at Olvera Street Plaza in Los Angeles, on Thursday, July 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE

By Kimberly Kindy and Amanda Seitz - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters during a swearing-in ceremony for Dr. Mehmet Oz, background right, to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, April 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Young girl faints in Oval Office during Trump’s session with reporters

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

FILE - Mehmet Oz, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, speaks to supporters at an election night rally in Newtown, Pa., Nov. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Dr. Mehmet Oz holds millions from companies that he’d wield power over if confirmed, report shows

By Amanda Seitz and Brian Slodysko - Associated Press

Fixing Medicare for American health care illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Updating Medicare Administrative Contractors system needs to be part of health care solutions

By Dr. Richard Carmona

The Medicare website is seen on a computer in New York on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Rachel Leathe)

Medicare Part B premiums to rise 6% in 2025, agency says

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

An unused gurney rests in the emergency room hallway outside one of the treatment rooms at the Alliance Healthcare System hospital in Holly Springs, Miss., Feb. 29, 2024. Rural emergency hospitals are starting to gain a small foothold in the United States. They provide 24/7 emergency care and receive more than $3 million in federal money a year. But the catch is there are zero inpatient beds at the facilities. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

A new kind of hospital is coming to rural America. To qualify, facilities must close their beds

Associated Press

First lady Jill Biden speaks during an event with the National Education Association in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Tuesday, July 4, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Jill Biden welcomes proposal for Medicare to pay for navigation services for cancer patients

By Darlene Superville - Associated Press

FILE - President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington, as Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., listen. Biden's upcoming budget proposal aims to trim deficits by nearly $3 trillion over the next decade. That's according to an administration official who insisted on anonymity to discuss the figures being released Thursday. The level of deficit reduction is significantly higher than the $2 trillion worth of deficit reduction that Biden had promised in his State of the Union address last month. (Jacquelyn Martin, Pool, File)

Biden’s plans to cut Medicare Advantage

By Peter Mihalick

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the Administrator for the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services, poses for a photograph in her office, Feb. 9, 2022, in Washington. The federal government will allow Medicaid dollars to treat people in prisons, jails or juvenile detention centers for the first time ever, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Jan. 26, 2023. The move will provide more stability for inmates and juvenile detainees as they exit institutions and re-enter the outside world, said Brooks-LaSure. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

California prison inmates to get some Medicaid care

By Amanda Seitz - Associated Press

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the Administrator for the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services, poses for a photograph in her office, Feb. 9, 2022, in Washington. The federal government is cracking down on nursing homes' abuse of antipsychotic drugs after an investigation in 2022 revealed an overwhelming majority of their residents are prescribed the medication. The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services will begin sending investigators to certain facilities in January 2023 to audit nursing homes' diagnoses of schizophrenia in patients.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Feds to investigate nursing home abuse of antipsychotics

By Amanda Seitz - Associated Press

Health care at home became a reality during the pandemic, now we need to keep the door open

By Krista Drobac, Founder of Moving Health Home

In this Thursday July 29, 2021, photo, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the House Committee on Oversight and Reform's ranking member, speaks during a hearing on voting rights in Texas in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

EXCLUSIVE: House GOP demands answers over $87B in improper spending on entitlements

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Let states innovate for Medicaid programs that put patients first

By U.S. Rep. Larry Bucshon, M.D.

Montana lawmakers approve governor’s changes to vaccine bill

By AMY BETH HANSON - Associated Press