New federal health care legislation could result in large cuts to Medicaid. Schools often rely on these funds for special education and other health services.

The fraud uncovered in Indiana include transportation billing for trips that never happened, money laundering and illegal opioid prescribing.

Medicaid spending on three important medications used to treat opioid addiction increased 136 percent nationwide between 2011 and 2016.

If approved, the plan requires HIP members to put in time each week working, job hunting, job training or studying-or risk having their health care suspended.

The reductions, along with a series of tax cuts, are part of an ambitious attempt from the administration to balance the federal budget in the next ten years.

Medicaid providers in Indiana and around the country have begun to provide some unique benefits to their customers, benefits that have more to do with success in life than health care.

An estimated 500 youth in Indiana age out of foster care system every year and when they do, they will lose health insurance if they don't re-enroll.

This year's telemedicine bill allows coverage for people on Medicaid.

The law would not require Medicaid to cover mental health and substance use treatment.

Legislative leaders say the future of Indiana's health care program, HIP 2.0, is uncertain with some federal lawmakers aiming to repeal its funding source.