Medicaid

More than 660,000 Illinoians were disenrolled from the state's Medicaid program following the expiration of a COVID-era congressional rule requiring states to keep patients enrolled during a public health crisis.

The upper chamber adjourned without taking up any bills despite a state constitutional deadline coming on Friday. That deadline has only been missed once, in 1997,

A resumption of the internal GOP warfare that led to a 41-hour filibuster last week could, for the first time since 1997, force lawmakers to complete appropriations in a special session.

The Federal Reimbursement Allowance, which is a tax on hospitals, ambulance districts, nursing homes and pharmacies, is set to expire at the end of September. The Senate gave it initial approval early Thursday morning after more than 40 hours of filibustering by the Missouri Freedom Caucus.

A federal rule will require long-term care facilities to have a minimum number of nursing staff on hand at all times to take care of residents.

The levies that help fund Missouri's Medicaid program are being held up by members of the Senate Freedom Caucus who want two other bills finished before they will promise not to filibuster its passage.

Missouri Democrats filibustered for more than 11 hours before sending the bill back to the House for a final vote.

The median time it took Missouri’s social services department to process Medicaid applications for low-income Missourians in February was 77 days.

Programs offering insurance to undocumented — and some documented — residents are undergoing some cost-saving changes.

Missouri’s highest court for the second time in four years rebuked lawmakers’s efforts to ban abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving Medicaid reimbursements.