Lawmakers are hopeful expanding healthcare access will bring down Alabama’s climbing infant and maternal mortality rates.

Alabama legislators introduced a bill encouraging parents to put kids on employer-sponsored insurance plans instead of ...

“This bill would require the Alabama Medicaid Agency to cover screening and would also regulate how Medicaid covers prescription drugs used to treat postpartum depression,” the legislation states.

The Alabama Senate passed legislation aimed at getting pregnant women to the doctor sooner if they are eligible for Medicaid.

Only one hospital from Alabama made the list ... but notes the solution to help keep other hospitals open may be political one. “The expansion of Medicaid is long overdue. We have a number of folks ...

Proposed cuts to housing, food assistance and health care are all topics Rep. Terri Sewell says she wants to be transparent about with her constituents.

A battle over the future of health care in Alabama is raging between two political heavyweights — Blue Cross and Blue Shield ...