Feds approve Utah's $100M Medicaid waiver

SALT LAKE CITY — After more than a year, the federal Health and Human Services Department has approved Utah's long-awaited Medicaid waiver, which will bring in roughly $100 million for 4,000 to 6,000 poor Utahns without children.
The waiver, including $70 million in federal dollars and $30 million in state dollars, will also allow $10 million to go toward Operation Rio Grande — the effort to root out lawlessness and addiction in Salt Lake City's most troubled neighborhood — to