The wide geography poses special healthcare problems to Alaska, but the telehealth medicaid Alaska program removes such challenges since the location does not matter because telehealth medicaid Alaska ...

A lawsuit settlement over hormone treatment coverage means Alaska Medicaid cannot deny gender-affirming care. The initial class-action lawsuit came from a transgender woman who sued the Alaska ...

Alaska Gov. Michael Dunleavy has proposed cutting Medicaid by $249 million to reduce state spending on government, according to Alaska Public Media. Details about potential state changes to Medicaid ...

Oct. 22--The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services began suspending Medicaid payments Tuesday to C Care Services in Anchorage while investigation into the company and its owner continued. C ...

Gender-affirming health care will soon become a covered benefit for Alaskans on Medicaid. The change is the result of a settlement in a lawsuit filed against the state health department that ...

On a life-flight from Fairbanks to Anchorage, Sierra Ott’s newborn son Liam would not stop bleeding from a routine needle prick. Doctors in the Anchorage neonatal intensive care unit diagnosed him ...

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker (I) announced in July his plans to circumvent the State Legislature to expand Medicaid in his state using executive powers. Under Obamacare, states have the option to expand ...

Department of Health and Social Services leaders believe they can cut about $100 million out of the state’s Medicaid budget quickly while getting to the remainder of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s goal of $225 ...

Between June 2020 and January 2021, the age-adjusted COVID-19 mortality rate among American Indian and Alaska Native people ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS), the state Medicaid agency, has agreed to pay the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) ...

A new report, which covers the entire COVID-19 pandemic (March 2020 to May 2023), provides in-depth coverage of the public ...

As a PMHNP-BC, I understand that my clients—particularly those facing the unique challenges of military life and remote living often struggle with issues such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, bipolar ...