The four-year grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is the largest the Hot Springs-based health provider has ever received. read more >

Despite the president's efforts, inflation is rising, and Republicans are capitalizing on higher prices, seeing openings in California and elsewhere to potentially pick up U.S. House seats. read more >

Work will focus on addressing critical gaps in data systems, health services availability and quality of care to improve outcomes and reduce disparities. read more >

Twelve of the centers in Arkansas received funds. read more >

The funds will help support vaccination efforts in the most vulnerable and medically underserved communities across the state. read more >

The directive comes after drugmaker Biogen slashed the price of the medication. read more >

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has received a $4.6 million grant to improve access to quality health care in rural Arkansas by expanding efforts to train and retain primary care physicians. read more >

The Head Start/Early Head Start Program in Pulaski County, which has been administered by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences' Department of Pediatrics since 1998, has received a $41 million grant from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. read more >

A $1.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will enable the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ College of Nursing to train more nurse practitioners to provide health care for aging adults in Arkansas. read more >

The rate of Americans without insurance has fallen to 13.2 percent as of March 4, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services announced last week. read more >

Baxter Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home is one of several hospitals appealing a federal court’s decision denying their request to speed up Medicare claim appeals by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. read more >

Adding to hospital frustration is the way that the RACs, which are private companies, are paid: They have a financial incentive to deny as many claims as possible because they receive up to 12.5 percent of the money recovered. read more >

Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Jay Bradford describes the planning that businesses will need to pay attention to in instilling the Federally-facilitated model. read more >