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Missouri Medicaid

May 4, 2020

Petition seeks to put Medicaid expansion on Missouri ballot

Missouri voters could get to decide whether to expand Medicaid health care coverage for thousands of low-income adults after a decade of repeated rejections by the state’s Republican-led Legislature. Supporters of a proposed constitutional amendment said Friday that they turned in nearly 350,000 initiative petition signatures to place the proposal on the November statewide ballot. […]

Mar 4, 2020

Lawsuit alleges Missouri fails severely disabled children

Missouri is denying severely disabled children full access to services and failing to prevent unnecessary placements in institutions, according to a federal lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed this week on behalf of nine children and teenagers with medically complex conditions who are enrolled in Medicaid — public coverage administered by the state, the St. Louis […]

Jan 29, 2020

Drop in Missouri kids on Medicaid faces continued scrutiny

Parents who no longer qualify for government health care but fail to sign up their children separately are partly to blame for the drop in children’s Medicaid coverage, a top legislative budget said, much to the chagrin of some lawmakers who blame the agency itself. State lawmakers and social services officials held a hearing to […]

Jan 29, 2020

Drop in Missouri kids on Medicaid faces continued scrutiny

Parents who no longer qualify for government health care but fail to sign up their children separately are partly to blame for the drop in children’s Medicaid coverage, a top legislative budget said, much to the chagrin of some lawmakers who blame the agency itself. State lawmakers and social services officials held a hearing to […]

Jan 10, 2020

Galloway vows to grow Medicaid if elected Missouri governor

Missouri’s Democratic Auditor Nicole Galloway said she would support expanding the number of people eligible for Medicaid if she’s elected governor. The candidate in a statement praised a bipartisan plan to expand state health coverage in Kansas that’s being spearheaded by Democratic Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and Republican Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning. Kelly’s Thursday[...]

Jan 10, 2020

Galloway vows to grow Medicaid if elected Missouri governor

Missouri’s Democratic Auditor Nicole Galloway said she would support expanding the number of people eligible for Medicaid if she’s elected governor. The candidate in a statement praised a bipartisan plan to expand state health coverage in Kansas that’s being spearheaded by Democratic Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and Republican Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning. Kelly’s Thursday[...]

Aug 21, 2019

Missouri cites economy, eligibility checks for Medicaid drop

Missouri officials are citing an improved economy as one of several factors that led to close to 90,000 children being dropped from the state’s Medicaid health insurance program in the past year, although some lawmakers are still unsatisfied with the explanation. Acting Social Services Director Jennifer Tidball sought to explain why those children and 23,000 […]

Aug 21, 2019

Missouri cites economy, eligibility checks for Medicaid drop

Missouri officials are citing an improved economy as one of several factors that led to close to 90,000 children being dropped from the state’s Medicaid health insurance program in the past year, although some lawmakers are still unsatisfied with the explanation. Acting Social Services Director Jennifer Tidball sought to explain why those children and 23,000 […]

Jul 23, 2019

Close to 90K children dropped from Missouri Medicaid program

Data shows nearly 90,000 children and close to 23,000 adults were dropped from Missouri’s Medicaid health care program in the past year, prompting a state Democratic leader to call for an investigation. House Minority Leader Crystal Quade this week publicly released a letter she wrote to Republican House Speaker Elijah Haahr days earlier asking him […]

Jul 23, 2019

Close to 90K children dropped from Missouri Medicaid program

Data shows nearly 90,000 children and close to 23,000 adults were dropped from Missouri’s Medicaid health care program in the past year, prompting a state Democratic leader to call for an investigation. House Minority Leader Crystal Quade this week publicly released a letter she wrote to Republican House Speaker Elijah Haahr days earlier asking him […]

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