Ohio is once again aiming to add work requirements for Medicaid. The proposed work requirementscould put up to 450,000 residents in Ohio at risk of losing health care coverage. This estimate was calculated by The Center for Community Solutions. The state estimates fewer than 62,000 would lose coverage.

WASHINGTON, D. C. - A freeze on federal grant and loan funding that President Donald Trump announced this week left Ohio agencies, universities, and companies that receive federal money in a state of uncertainty as they weighed how to cope with a new policy that jeopardizes billions of dollars they expected to receive.

Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that provides health care coverage to low-income individuals and families. It services over 79 million Americans.

The ideas being proposed could amount to more than $2 trillion of cuts to the countrys public health insurance program for low-income and disabled Americans over the next decade and could potentially push millions of people off the program.

After declining to name Medicaid as a program safe from the Trump administration's woke "freeze," press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the sites should be back up shortly.

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.

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

A federal judge temporarily blocked the White House’s freeze on federal grants and loans, but if it goes through, it could have major impacts on people in the region who rely on social services, potentially impacting people’s health and well-being.

The Ohio Department of Medicaid is again pursuing work requirements for members who accessed Medicaid through the expansion of the program under the Affordable Care Act. The proposal would require enrollees by employed,

The White House’s freeze on federal grants and loans could have major impacts on people in the region who rely on social services, potentially impacting people’s health and well-being.

The Trump administration’s freeze on federal grants sparked chaos and confusion at state Medicaid agencies on Tuesday.

The Medicaid website was down, but the portal was expected to be back up shortly, said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. She wrote on X that no payments had been affected and that they were still being processed and sent.