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Following a three-year pause on dropping Alaskans from Medicaid during the COVID pandemic, the state health department is now changing how it processes renewals, to keep more people enrolled. The goal ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

My career revolves around the hundreds of kids between 4 to 18 years old I am with nearly every day. I’ve been a school secretary for 15 years, and I love it. Helping create a place where kids can ...