Iowa has a new law that will require tens of thousands of Medicaid recipients to fulfill work requirements or risk losing their health care. But the work requirements won't kick in until the state ...

Gov. Kim Reynolds on the "Iowa Press" set at Iowa PBS in May, 2025. (Iowa PBS photo) New federal rules that are to go into effect in 2027 will require some Americans enrolled in an expansion of the ...

Lee Grossman, the former director of Wyoming's Medicaid program, will take over Iowa Medicaid in September as its new director. Iowa Medicaid provides health care coverage to more than 700,000 ...

It's not just youth — Iowa's Medicaid program is now banned from covering gender-affirming care for adults, too. House File 1049 prevents Medicaid from paying for hormone therapies or gender-affirming ...

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds discusses the recently concluded legislative session while taping her appearance on Iowa PBS' "Iowa Press" at Iowa PBS studios in Johnston on May 23. (Iowa PBS screenshot) Buy ...

After the Iowa Medicaid system’s transition to managed care was rescheduled from Jan. 1 to March 1, a state judge has rejected WellCare of Iowa’s request to maintain its Medicaid operations, according ...

The Rural Health Transformation Program will allocate $50 billion to rural hospitals over five years. It's part of the "big, beautiful bill." The program aims to offset potential losses from the new ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa — Iowa Medicaid will no longer cover gender-affirming care treatments starting July 1, after Gov. Kim Reynolds signed HF1049, a budget appropriations bill, into law last week.

Iowa Democratic congressional candidate Christina Bohannan speaks with Washington County Hospitals and Clinics CEO Todd Paterson while going on a tour of the Washington County Hospital and Clinics in ...

A new report ranked Iowa’s health system 18th in the nation, but experts said gains made in reducing the state's uninsured rate could be affected by federal proposals to cut health safety net programs ...