Spectrum: Autism Research News

Until Congress renews CHIP, states are cut off from additional federal funding that helps lower- and middle-income families.

Although it started as a plan to cover only the poor, Medicaid now touches tens of millions of Americans who live above the poverty line.

Teenagers and young adults with severe autism are spending weeks or even months in emergency rooms and acute-care hospitals, sometimes sedated, restrained or confined to mesh-tented beds.

The average provider network includes only 11 percent of all the mental health care providers in a given market, according to a recent study.

The Food and Drug Administration is changing the way it approves medicines known as ‘orphan drugs’ after revelations that drugmakers may be abusing a law intended to help patients with rare diseases.

A U.S. federal-state program that provides healthcare children in lower- and middle-class families is up for renewal later this month, but many fear it could get lost in the shuffle or that conservative lawmakers will seek to limit its reach.

Only a fraction of disabled children would meet the definition of ‘blind and disabled’ that would allow them to keep their Medicaid coverage under the proposed health bill Republicans are pushing.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price sparred with Democrats over the Trump administration’s budget cuts for his department and coming troubles in the individual health insurance market.

Medicaid covered 45 percent of children and 16 percent of adults in small towns and rural areas in 2015, according to a new report.

Republican legislators interacting with constituents about repealing Obamacare seem to be using three main tactics: providing incorrect information, using euphemisms for the impact of their actions and deleting comments critical of them.