With the 2026 election approaching, Gov. Kim Reynolds and Attorney General Brenna Bird have unveiled a new priority: cracking down on Medicaid fraud. That comes as a big surprise to those of us who ...

Iowa's Medicaid program is projected to face tens of millions of dollars in deficits in coming years, prompting warnings from the state auditor. State health officials and Republican leaders countered ...

The Rural Health Transformation Program will allocate $50 billion to rural hospitals over five years. It's part of the "big, beautiful bill." The program aims to offset potential losses from the new ...

Erica Carter of Sioux City, Iowa, says she enjoys her job as a finance manager for the Omaha Nation public school district in Nebraska, working to find opportunities for low-income students. But when ...

DES MOINES — The future of private management of Iowa’s $7 billion Medicaid program hinges on which candidate voters choose to become the state’s next governor this fall. Zach Lahn, the Republican ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird, center, led Iowa's first Medicaid Fraud Elimination Task Force meeting July 15, 2026. (Photo by ...

One of America’s most competitive gubernatorial races could settle a heated argument over whether private insurance companies should run Medicaid. The race is in Iowa, whose Medicaid program has been ...

Iowa’s Medicaid program is projected to face tens of millions of dollars in deficits in coming years, prompting warnings from the state auditor. State Auditor Rob Sand, a Democrat, accused Republican ...

Erica Carter of Sioux City, Iowa, says she enjoys her job as a finance manager for the Omaha Nation public school district in Nebraska, working to find grants and opportunities for low-income students ...