Balch’s perspective underscores the broader affordability crisis facing working families and highlights how rising premiums ...

Though the impact on rural facilities has received more focus from lawmakers, the majority of hospitals that are most susceptible to the funding cuts operate in urban communities. The One Big ...

Medicaid enrollment declined this year as states ended pandemic-era continuous enrollment policies, but spending rose — and looming cuts to the safety-net insurance program means more cost pressures ...

BOSTON — A shortfall in a state fund that helps safety-net hospitals pay medical costs for large numbers of uninsured and low-income patients has ballooned to nearly $290 million, according to newly ...