Murphy is a resident physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Keppel is a resident physician at Brigham and Women’s and Boston Children’s hospitals. With the passage of President Trump’s tax bill and its ...

More than 6.3 million Americans were deemed eligible for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program between October and December, according to a Reuters report. HHS Secretary Kathleen ...

Healthcare is critical for a child’s long-term well-being. Children who have access to insurance coverage are more likely to receive preventive care and services such as routine physicals, ...

Is expanding Medicaid coverage feasible and beneficial? That is the question many states have been asking themselves since 2014, when the government extended eligibility to low income adults up to 138 ...

According to a CMS report, state agencies deemed roughly 1.46 million people eligible for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program in October. That includes people who are newly eligible ...

Last year, the mother noticed her 7-year-old son was having trouble seeing far away things at home. After a visit to the eye doctor, she learned that he needed glasses but without health insurance, ...

Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) play critical roles in US child health coverage, but children frequently endure uninsured periods, and recent federal health policy changes ...