Access to the State of Alabama’s Medicaid portal has been temporarily closed. This closure comes after a federal loan and grant funding freeze issued by President Donald Trump. No word on what this closure will mean for Medicaid and SNAP benefit recipients.

Access to the State of Alabama’s Medicaid portal has been restored after being temporarily closed Tuesday. The portal closure came after a federal loan and grant funding freeze issued by President Donald Trump.

Many legal experts say the pause is an illegal impoundment and compromises Congress’s constitutional “power of the purse.”

The Montgomery City Council is expected to consider the resolution to guarantee part of Jackson Hospital’s debt on Friday.

Alabama Medicaid program reopens

State Medicaid programs across the country reported Tuesday they had lost access to federal payment portals one day after President Trump announced a freeze on federal grants and aid. By the late

The leader of the Alabama House of Representatives said Thursday that Medicaid expansion will not be one of the chamber’s priorities for the 2025 legislative session, but that changes to the ...

At least three U.S. lawmakers said on Tuesday healthcare providers were blocked from the Medicaid payment portal after the Trump administration announced a federal funding pause, even as the White House said the program was exempted.

Nathaniel Ledbetter’s comments came as Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama is pitching a proposal to use Medicaid expansion dollars to purchase private insurance plans

After President Donald Trump ordered a freeze on federal grants and loans, Medicaid's portals went down Tuesday afternoon, causing recipients to panic about their health insurance coverage. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the Medicaid outage Tuesday on X, formerly Twitter, but said payments would not be impacted.

The DOJ found that the state must make community-based services accessible so that physically disabled children can avoid being segregated in nursing facilities.

The Trump Administration announced a halt on federal funding for loans and grants Monday to take effect Tuesday, but a federal judge stopped the funding freeze minutes before it was supposed to be