Alabama is facing a severe maternal and infant health crisis, earning an “F” on the 2025 March of Dimes Report Card.

Here are eight dental-related Medicaid and Medicare updates that have taken place since September: 1. A panel of dentists, lawmakers and public health professionals met Nov. 5 to discuss ways to ...

Sometimes, in a quiet moment between appointments, Dr. Carson Cruise runs the financial numbers through his head. They make a cold but compelling case: If he dropped all of the Medicaid patients from ...

Dr. Carson Cruise is a pediatric dentist in Florence, Ala. He has some patients whose families travel an hour or more to his clinic because he accepts Medicaid. Alabama’s low reimbursement rates have ...

Emergency Medicaid for undocumented immigrants made up only 0.4% of total Medicaid spending in 2022, a new study finds. Researchers from Emory University; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical ...

Alabama lawmakers and doctors gathered in Birmingham to celebrate a new law designed to improve maternal healthcare. The legislation, effective October 1 2025, introduces presumptive Medicaid ...

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