The state human services department released its Medicaid Changes Communications Toolkit in Spanish. From January 1, 2027, some adults ages 19 to 64 must show work requirements or an exemption and renew every six months.
Pennsylvania DHS said retroactive Medicaid coverage shrinks for applications filed on or after January 1, 2027. Expansion adults will get one month and all other groups two months, down from three.
Pennie reported 406,984 enrollees as of October 1. About 130,000 enrollees dropped coverage after 2026 open enrollment ended on January 31, and 214,000 canceled when open-enrollment cancellations are counted.
The Pennsylvania House passed House Bill 1925 by a vote of 144-59. It would set rules for artificial intelligence in health care facilities and its use by insurers and by Medical Assistance and CHIP managed care plans.
Pennsylvania House Bill 2797 was referred to the Human Services Committee. It would bar insurers, Medicaid managed care plans and pharmacy benefit managers from paying 340B covered entities below national average drug acquisition cost.
WHYY reported that about 8,000 lawfully present immigrants in Pennsylvania could lose Medicaid on October 1. Refugees and asylees are among them, while children and pregnant or postpartum women keep coverage.
The NLRB certified that nurse practitioners and physician assistants at Delaware Valley Community Health in Philadelphia voted against a union. The August 27 tally was 9 to 7 against District 1199C, with all 16 eligible clinicians voting.
Berks Community Health Center, a Reading-based Federally Qualified Health Center founded in 2012, and Union Community Care, which serves Lancaster, Lebanon and Chester counties, announced on August 17…
The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services has begun mailing formal work-requirement notices to “more than 700,000 residents,” of whom “about 183,000 people fall into the Medicaid expansion group” in Philadelphia (WHYY, September 3).
Observed August 24, Pennsylvania DHS's eligible-projects page displays $43,000,000 awarded to date and names five health-center award lines totaling $2,847,526: Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers, $997,423; Cornerstone Care at Greensboro, $951,998…
The Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health's July 17 budget summary reports that the enacted FY2026-27 budget delays approximately $2.6 billion in payments to Medicaid managed-care organizations over two years and keeps the Primary Care Practitioner Program at…
WellSpan Health's July 24 first-party announcement says Pennsylvania DHS awarded $2.8 million for three projects: neurosurgical technology at Chambersburg Hospital, critical power-transition equipment at Evangelical Community Hospital…
Observed August 24, Community Health and Dental Care's mobile-unit page lists August 27, 9 a.m.–1 p.m., at Montgomery County Community College's Pottstown Campus, 101 College Drive, for scheduled care and walk-in dental emergencies.
Pennsylvania DHS's official 340B page, last updated December 15, 2025, directs 340B covered entities billing Medical Assistance fee-for-service and/or a managed care organization for 340B drugs dispensed to program beneficiaries to Medical Assistance Bulletin…
Primary Health Network's May 22 post says three PHN employees graduated from the 2025–26 National Institute of Medical Assistant Advancement program: one based at Wayne Primary Care and two at New Castle Primary Care.
Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers reported July 9 that it welcomed its second class of family-medicine residents at the beginning of July. The page identifies four PGY-1 residents and says they join the inaugural class in a program launched in 2025.
The Pennsylvania Independent Fiscal Office's June brief reports Medical Assistance enrollment of 3.049 million in April 2025 and 2.949 million in April 2026, a decline of 99,700 or 3.3%.
Observed July 16, 2026, Family First Health’s Columbia Medical page for 369 Locust Street says patients should call 717-342-2577 for emergencies after business hours or on weekends…
Observed July 16, 2026, Sadler Health Center’s current Express Care page says walk-ins are welcome without an appointment at the West Shore Center, 5210 E. Trindle Road in Mechanicsburg, from 8 a.m. To 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Valley Health Partners Community Health Center announced that it had opened its newest community health center at 440 W. Lincoln Street in Easton's South Side.
The Wright Centers system—whose FQHC Look-Alike operator is The Wright Center Medical Group—reported matching 62 incoming resident physicians: 43 in internal medicine, six in Scranton family medicine…
NACHC reports that mandatory, multi-year federal funding for community health centers expires December 31, 2026, while annual discretionary funding expires September 30, 2026.
Pennsylvania DHS says a federal law enacted in July 2025 requires some Medicaid adults to renew coverage every six months and some to meet and report work or community-engagement requirements beginning January 1, 2027.
The 2025–26 SB 25 was introduced and referred to the Pennsylvania Senate Consumer Protection & Professional Licensure Committee on January 22, 2025; the General Assembly's bill history shows no later action as of this review.
Pennsylvania DHS's July 31 announcement states that the Commonwealth received a first-year Rural Health Transformation financial-assistance award of $193,294,053.98, pending approval of a revised budget and fully funded by CMS/HHS.
Pennsylvania DHS's March 5 implementation deck says the community-engagement initiative focuses on approximately 750,000 people in the Medicaid expansion population.
WESA reported May 8 that it found no school-based health-center initiative in Pennsylvania's initial RHTP design and quoted Family First Health CEO Jenny Englerth advocating for schools as access points.
At an April 29 Capitol event, Pennsylvania community health center staff requested $5M in the FY2026-27 budget, down from a $50M request the prior year.
Pennie's affordability page, updated August 10, reports 422,869 enrollees as of August 1, about 108,000 fewer than January 31, and more than 191,000 plan cancellations during 2026 when open-enrollment cancellations are included.
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