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Five months after a judge ruled Missouri must begin enrolling people in its newly expanded Medicaid program, the state is off to a slow start, with only 20% of newly eligible people signed up.
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While the state is accepting applications for Medicaid coverage under expanded eligibility, it says it can't start processing those applications before October 1.
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State officials said eligible individuals would not be enrolled until Oct. 1 due to system updates.
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If approved, the federal government would pay for 90% of a women's health program costs. State officials say it would decrease unplanned pregnancies and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. But critics say the program won’t reach low-income women who need it the most, because the waiver would bar clinics that offer abortions from participating.
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The Missouri Department of Social Services must pay Planned Parenthood for providing care for Medicaid patients, the state Supreme Court ruled…
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Missouri began offering chiropractic care, acupuncture, physical therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy for Medicaid patients in April, the latest state…
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Proponents of a Medicaid expansion in Missouri want to allow voters to override the state's Republican leaders, who have refused to extend coverage to…
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When Missouri officials announced earlier this year that more than 100,000 people, many of them children, had been dropped from the state Medicaid…
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About 60 percent of the approximately 70,000 Missourians purged from the state’s Medicaid program in 2018 lost coverage because they failed to reply to a…
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Missouri likely would not have to spend any additional money to expand Medicaid to insure more low-income people, according to a report from the…