Shares of Universal Health Services and other large U.S. hospital chains fell sharply Monday. The moves appeared to be in response to a directive Friday by President Trump telling the government to scrutinize Medicaid payments more closely.

President Donald Trump's administration has released to deportation officials the personal data for millions of Medicaid enrollees, including their immigration status.

Top advisers to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered the details of millions of Medicaid recipients, including names, addresses and health information, given to the Department of

In the days since the Trump administration rescinded federal guidance tied to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, EMTALA, a wave of alarming headlines has swept across social media: “Trump just made it legal for hospitals to let pregnant people die.

The Trump administration withdrew a federal directive that required emergency rooms to provide abortion care in an urgent medical crisis. Now hospitals are scrambling to figure out what it means.

“It’s an all-of-government directive that puts everything into a lurch for states and grantees.” [Trump White House orders freeze on federal grants, loans] Health care providers ...

On April 9, 2025, President Trump signed a new presidential ... Given the breadth of this directive, agencies are likely to consider a range of health care rules that apply to Medicare, Medicaid ...

In 2022, the Biden administration issued the existing directive to hospitals in an effort to preserve abortion access for extreme cases in which women were experiencing medical emergencies and needed an abortion to prevent organ loss, severe hemorrhaging, or other serious complications, the AP reported.

The Trump administration is giving the personal data of Medicaid-enrolled immigrants to the Department of Homeland Security, according to the Associated Press. The Department of Homeland Security forced the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services—which is part of Robert F.