Jan 29, 2025 · “My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night’s federal funding freeze,” Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, posted on X on Tuesday ...

Jan 29, 2025 · Update: The White House Office of Management and Budget on Wednesday, Jan. 29, rescinded a memo ordering a federal funding freeze less than two days after it caused chaos and stoked fear that the ...

Jan 28, 2025 · Federally-funded community health clinics, which that serve more than 32 million patients, many of them low-income, were also caught in the portal freeze. In addition to Medicaid, those clinics ...

Jan 28, 2025 · Federal Medicaid assistance is distributed on a daily basis in the form of grants to states and totaled $618 billion in the fiscal year ended on Sept. 30, 2024 - roughly $2.5 billion per business day.

Jan 29, 2025 · A day after the original memo was issued and after multiple reports that Medicaid payment portals had been shut down in all 50 states, the White House clarified that the federal funding freeze ...

Jan 29, 2025 · A federal judge blocked the funding freeze minutes before it was set to kick in, placing it on until next week while the legal wrangling continues Update at 12:25 p.m. Wednesday: President Donald ...

Jan 28, 2025 · States and the nation’s health industry were thrown into disarray after the Trump administration ordered Monday that the government freeze nearly all federal grants at 5 p.m. ET Tuesday, a sweeping directive that at least initially appeared to include funding for Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program that covers more than 70 million Americans.

Jan 28, 2025 · A funding freeze ordered by the Trump administration has sparked widespread confusion about its effects on government programs such as Medicaid.

Jan 28, 2025 · Medicaid confusion. ... On Capitol Hill, lawmakers scrambled to figure out what the funding freeze would mean for their constituents. “The scope of what you are ordering is breathtaking ...

Jan 28, 2025 · Health Care. State Medicaid payments inaccessible amid broader federal funding freeze States and the federal government jointly fund Medicaid, which offers insurance to more than 70 million Americans.