UPDATE: Alabama’s Medicaid portal is back online.
ORIGINAL: Medicaid reimbursement portals were down Tuesday in every U.S. state as President Donald Trump’s administration enacted a funding freeze on federal grants and loans.
The White House said it was aware of the outage and said it expected systems to be “back online shortly” without payments being affected. The new White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt wasn’t able to guarantee that people on Medicaid wouldn’t see a cutoff.
She also insisted the pause is temporary.
The Payment Management Services (PMS) web portal organizations use currently warns that due “to Executive Orders regarding potentially unallowable grant payments, PMS is taking additional measures to process payments. Reviews of applicable programs and payments will result in delays and/or rejections of payments.”
Oregon Democratic Senator Ron Wyden called it “a blatant attempt to rip away health insurance from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.”
Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley said he had been assured Medicaid would not be affected by the funding freeze.
Over 72 million people in the U.S. were enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in October 2024. Of those enrolled in either program, more than 37 million were children.
