Montana hoped to be one of the first states to implement changes to Medicaid required by the “big, beautiful bill," but the federal government asked it to hit the brakes.

District Court Judge Mike Menahan has blocked a new Montana rule that would have limited Medicaid-covered abortion procedures to only those that medically needed it. Under the rule, Montana doctors ...

Photo illustration by Getty Images. No state stands to lose more in Medicaid cuts being discussed in the “Big Beautiful Bill” than Montana, according to several new reports. That translates to nearly ...

The Montana Capitol (Photo by Darrell Ehrlick of the Daily Montanan). Lawmakers on the health and human services budget committee on Wednesday heard opposing presentations about Medicaid expansion in ...

Backers of Montana's seven-month-old Medicaid expansion say they're pleased with the first set of financial data released this week. State figures say enrollment as of July is nearly double initial ...

Gianforte requests federal disaster declaration due to northwestern Montana flooding; Feds delay Medicaid work requirement ...

Montana health officials are considering requiring prior authorization before the state’s health department pays for abortions for Medicaid patients. The proposed rule by the state’s Department of ...

HELENA, Mont. — Montana’s conservative leaders, stymied by the courts from passing laws that impose significant statewide abortion restrictions, seek to tighten the state’s Medicaid rules to make it ...

HELENA, Mont. — Montana, one of only about a dozen states with a fully government-run Medicaid program, has hired a new Medicaid director who oversaw managed-care programs in Iowa and Kansas and ...

States checking Medicaid eligibility have accidentally dropped coverage for people who do qualify. For homeless individuals in Montana, losing that coverage is dangerous and much harder to fix. During ...

A groundbreaking study released Thursday showed that many of Montana’s greatest hopes about how Medicaid expansion could benefit the state have turned out to be true, and in some cases, better than ...

The Obama administration approved Montana’s Medicaid expansion plan on Monday, making it the 30th state to expand the program under the Affordable Care Act, according to The Hill. Here are five things ...