Medicaid


May 2, 2023

UAMS Researchers Find Financial Burdens for Cancer Survivors Vary by Insurance Type

David Wise

Cancer Patient Looking Stressed

FAYETTEVILLE — Rural women cancer survivors are more likely to experience financial strain related to basic household needs rather than medical debt, according to researchers from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Office of Community Health & Research. The study, “It was kind of a nightmare, it really was:” Financial Toxicity Among Rural…


November 30, 2016

New UAMS West Building Combines Local Ideas, Builders

Ben Boulden

Nov. 30, 2016 | Construction crews, most of them from western Arkansas, are wielding tools to take the ideas gathered from local patients, health care providers and design experts and shape them into the new UAMS West Regional Campus clinic building in Fort Smith they imagined. By spring, those physicians, nurses, staff members and area patients…


September 2, 2016

Former Head of Medicaid under President Bush to Serve as UAMS Faculty, DHS Senior Advisor for Medicaid

Liz Caldwell

LITTLE ROCK – Dennis G. Smith, former head of Medicaid under President George W. Bush, will become a visiting faculty member at UAMS and senior advisor for Medicaid and Health Care Reform for the Department of Human Services (DHS) effective Sept. 15. “We were very excited when DHS Director Cindy Gillespie approached us about bringing…


October 23, 2015

UAMS Awarded Nearly $1 Million for Medicaid Savings

Ben Boulden

Oct. 23, 2015 | UAMS today demonstrated it is leading the state in improving patient care while also saving money as Chancellor Dan Rahn, M.D., accepted $927,642 from Medicaid for its part in helping Arkansas avoid $34 million in Medicaid costs in 2014. UAMS received the largest amount of the $5.3 million that Medicaid and…


January 21, 2014

UAMS Begins Statewide Sickle Cell Clinical Program

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has opened a multidisciplinary clinic to serve Arkansas’ adult sickle cell patients as part of a statewide comprehensive program to address the disease.


December 12, 2012

Future Brings Financial Challenges in Health Care

Ben Boulden

Dec. 12, 2012 | The state’s only academic health sciences center could lose more than $35 million in funding reductions that would affect its patient care services, research and educating tomorrow’s medical professionals, its chancellor said recently.


November 7, 2011

Public Health Study Shows State Medicaid Savings

Nate Hinkel

Nov. 7, 2011 | Enhancing access to home and community-based health care services to the disabled and elderly can save millions in the Arkansas Medicaid program, according to a researcher at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health.


October 20, 2011

State Medicaid Savings Created by Better Access to Health Services, UAMS Study Shows

Nate Hinkel

LITTLE ROCK – Enhancing access to home and community-based health care services to the disabled and elderly can save millions in the Arkansas Medicaid program, according to a researcher at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health.