Sign In
Free Newsletter
Ducey signs KidsCare children’s health insurance bill
Arizona is going to restore a program it shelved six years ago to provide health care to the children of the working poor.
Large insurers could leave Arizona health care marketplace
One of Arizona's largest health care insurers is leaving the state's Affordable Care Act marketplace, a move that would reduce or eliminate options in rural counties.
Feds warn states against defunding Planned Parenthood
The director of the federal Medicaid program published a broadside Tuesday over efforts in Arizona and other state legislatures to block funding for Planned Parenthood.
Arizona Legislature again interferes in medical practice
Arizona obstetricians and gynecologists are hoping that history does not repeat itself.
Agreement can’t be reached on prisoners’ health care claims
Attorneys came to an impasse today in resolving claims the Department of Corrections is shirking its obligation under a year-old lawsuit settlement to improve health care for prisoners.
House panel OKs bill restoring children’s health insurance
A bill to provide health insurance for thousands of Arizona children cleared a hurdle Tuesday as lawmakers unanimously passed a measure to lift a freeze on a program covering low-income kids.
Report: Arizona fares poorly on health insurance for Hispanic kids
A new report says that Arizona had the 10th-highest percentage of uninsured Hispanic children in the nation in 2014 – the third-highest among states with the largest numbers of Hispanic children.
Failed Arizona co-op says more than half chose new plans
More than half of the 59,000 Arizonans who will need to change health insurance companies because of the planned Jan. 1 closure of the state's nonprofit co-op have chosen new carriers, officials with the failed nonprofit said.
Murphy Health Center brings care and hope to south Phoenix
Not far from a sewage treatment plant, a landfill and the Maricopa County jail annex are the four schools and hundreds of families that make up the Murphy Elementary School District in south Phoenix. More than 80 percent of its residents are Hispanic, most of them poor and many undocumented.
Lawmakers renew effort to ban Planned Parenthood funding
Nearly two years after being rebuffed by the U.S. Supreme Court, Republican legislators are making a new bid to “defund” Planned Parenthood.
State of Arizona seeks to get back $4.2 million from scheme
Prosecutors are seeking the forfeiture of $4.2 million in cash, real estate and other property seized in an investigation of a former state employee charged with stealing millions of dollars from Arizona's health care program for the poor.
Cancer advancements contribute to Arizona’s robust health care sector
From a local, economic-development standpoint, Arizona’s health care sector has all the right ingredients: high-wage jobs, a highly educated workforce and a growing impact on the state’s economy.
