{"id":251490,"date":"2026-07-24T22:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251490\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T22:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:33:07","slug":"pennsylvania-invests-1-million-in-stable-housing-for-medicaid-recipients-with-health-conditions-pennsylvania-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251490\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania invests $1 million in stable housing for Medicaid recipients with health conditions | Pennsylvania News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENNSYLVANIA (WFMZ-TV) &#8212; Pennsylvania is looking to help out Medicaid recipients to get a roof over their head.<\/p>\n<p>The administration is touting a $1 million investment in stable housing for people on\u00a0Medicaid with certain chronic health conditions.<\/p>\n<p>PA Department of Human Services Secretary Dr Val Arkoosh says the investment will actually save money for the Medicaid program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know that when we help house unhoused people, it reduces emergency room visits by at least 30%&#8230; it also reduces hospitalizations by about 30% so that reduces crowding in our emergency rooms and it saves money in our Medicaid program&#8230; so it&#8217;s just a win-win all the way around,&#8221; Arkoosh said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She says the program will eventually lead those experiencing homelessness to self-sufficiency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA (WFMZ-TV) &#8212; Pennsylvania is looking to help out Medicaid recipients to get a roof over their head.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[214,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-251490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}