The Record
Every Iowa record from every file, newest first; federal records that apply in every state are in the full archive.
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Tracked issues with at least one Iowa record since Apr 27, 2026.
Iowa Department of Health and Human Services
Iowa HHS posted a one-page reporting process for its Medicaid community engagement rule. Members must show 80 hours a month of work, volunteering, job training or half-time school.
Iowa Department of Health and Human Services
Iowa HHS updated its guide: refugees without a green card lose Medicaid on October 1, whatever their renewal date. Health plans will not do proactive outreach.
Iowa Department of Health and Human Services
Iowa HHS proposed adding non-emergency medical transportation to the Iowa Health and Wellness Plan starting January 1, 2027. CMS will stop approving the waiver Iowa used to skip this benefit, and comments are due October 17.
The Gazette
Eastern Iowa Health Center, an FQHC in Cedar Rapids, unveiled an optometry practice on August 20 in which on-site technicians run tests, including a virtual reality headset, and one of 10 licensed optometrists reviews the images and meets patients by video…
Iowa Department of Health and Human Services
A September 3 Iowa Medicaid member town-hall deck discloses, for the first time we can find, the mechanism behind the December 1, 2026 Iowa Health and Wellness Plan community-engagement requirement: a "Community Engagement Portal (CEP) - Portal applicants and…
Iowa Department of Health and Human Services
A second September 3 Iowa Medicaid town-hall deck states that the agency "reviewed to Identify prohibited entities" under H.R. 1, notes that "legislations applies to providers as a whole not solely to specific services," and says "attestations are in place…
Iowa Primary Care Association
The Iowa Primary Care Association reported on August 6, 2026 that all 14 of Iowa's community health centers received at least one Community Health Quality Recognition badge from HRSA.
Iowa Department of Health and Human Services
Iowa HHS opened public comment on proposed Medicaid State Plan Amendment IA-25-0016.
River Hills Community Health Center
River Hills Community Health Center's June 23 staff update says it opened a Pennsylvania Avenue clinic to care for patients who lost their medical home after two local clinics closed.
Greater Sioux Community Health Center
Promise Community Health Center's January 30 first-year review says Hope Link served 53 patients in 2025 by creating a pathway to critical medications at no cost.
Siouxland Community Health Center
Siouxland Community Health Center's 2025 annual report lists 341 total employees, 59 new employees welcomed, five employees retired and five new providers.
All Care Health Center
All Care Health Center’s November 26 post says Dr. Miyares joined its dental team full-time in September 2025 and provides care in English and Spanish.
Crescent Community Health Center
Crescent Community Health Center’s 2025 Impact Report says it launched three specialty service lines: on-site dermatology one day per month through Medical Associates Clinic, digital optometry through Digital Optometrics…
Little Village Magazine
Little Village reports that Planned Parenthood's Iowa City Health Center will close July 31, 2026, leaving the Susan Knapp Health Center in Des Moines as the organization's only Iowa facility offering in-person medical services.
Iowa Department of Health and Human Services
Iowa HHS's June 18 release names five Combat Cancer Health Hub awardees: Ottumwa Regional Health Center, Wayne County Hospital, Shenandoah Medical Center, Greater Regional Medical Center, and Mary Greeley Medical Center.
Iowa Primary Care Association
The Iowa Primary Care Association says it assumed the statewide Behavioral Health Administrative Organization role on July 1, 2025. Its first-year report lists 52,916 calls received, 34 locations with in-person system navigation, and 49 system navigators.
Iowa Starting Line
After a 27-19 NLRB vote and an April 13, 2026 certification, ~45 workers at River Hills Community Health Center (Ottumwa/Centerville, Iowa; River Hills United, Teamsters Local 90) opened first-contract bargaining (sessions May 20-21 and June 10-11).
Commonwealth Fund
The Commonwealth Fund analysis was published May 30, 2025 and modeled the version of H.R. 1 passed by the U.S. House on May 22, before enactment of the final federal law.
Iowa Legislative Services Agency
The Legislative Services Agency's March 28, 2025 fiscal note estimated that approximately 32,000 people might lose Iowa Health and Wellness Plan coverage under the then-pending SF 615 work-requirement design.
KCRG
KCRG reported on December 21, 2025 that the federal Medicaid work requirement would start January 1, 2027, not December 1, 2026 as the prior summary stated.
Iowa Department of Health and Human Services
Iowa HHS launched its redesigned Behavioral Health and Disability Services Systems on July 1, 2025.
Iowa Department of Health and Human Services
Iowa HHS says certain Iowa Health and Wellness Plan members must meet monthly community-engagement requirements by December 1, 2026 to enroll and maintain coverage.
Iowa Capital Dispatch
Iowa Capital Dispatch reports that the state sued NuDak Ventures, doing business as NuCara Specialty Pharmacy, alleging that it failed to make required monthly payments under its Iowa HHS contract and owed more than $22 million generated through the AIDS Drug…
Iowa Department of Health and Human Services / Iowa General Assembly
Iowa HHS's January 2026 legislative report says that, as of December 1, 2025, 54 facilities had obstetric units and 43 obstetric units had closed since 2000. It notes that two units closed during 2024.
Community Health Center Chronicles / Iowa Primary Care Association
The current Community Health Center Chronicles profile lists the Iowa Primary Care Association as representing 14 community health centers and 99 sites, with the quick facts attributed to Iowa PCA, 2023.
Iowa Capital Dispatch
Iowa Capital Dispatch reported on March 26 that Governor Reynolds signed HF 2739. The law raises the HMO premium-tax rate from 0.925% to 3.5% retroactively for January 1 through September 30, 2026, and then lowers it to 0.95% beginning in October.
KFF
KFF's survey of state Medicaid officials, fielded from January through March 2026 and published April 30, reports that Iowa plans to implement work requirements on December 1, 2026, one month before the federal January 1, 2027 start date.
Iowa General Assembly
The enrolled SF 2422 adds the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements service to Iowa's public-assistance verification sources and directs the state to count the income and resources of all household members for SNAP…
Iowa Department of Health and Human Services
Iowa HHS describes Healthy Hometowns as its Rural Health Transformation Program plan and says Iowa received $209 million in the first year. The page says Iowa could receive $200 million per project year, or $1 billion over five years, only if fully awarded.
Office of Governor Kim Reynolds
Governor Reynolds's May 3 statement marks the conclusion of the 2026 legislative session and describes SF 2422 as directing Iowa HHS to seek waivers to strengthen SNAP program integrity, comply with the federal reconciliation law…
Marshalltown Times-Republican
A March 28 report said Waterloo-based Peoples Community Health Clinic planned to open a federally qualified health center in the former MercyOne clinic at 200 Walnut Street in Traer around mid-April.
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