After Medicaid expansion began in Missouri in July 2021, the proportion of emergency department visits financed by Medicaid rose by nearly 15 percentage points, while the proportion of such visits financed by the uninsured dropped by 14 percentage points, finds anew analysisfrom the Center for Advanc...
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A brutal form of cynicism lies behind the latest excuse offered by Missouri Senate Republicans for refusing to even discuss an expansion of the state Medicaid program. The proposal would extend health insurance to poor people and bring thousands of jobs to the state by leveraging billions of ...
the General Assembly would have had to include a funding stream for it in the fiscal year 2022 budget, which the General Assembly did not do. As a result, Missouri’s Medicaid program withdrew the state plan amendment for Medicaid expansion. ...
I think, for example, Executive Order 14070 from the Biden administration was very focused on facilitating Medicaid expansion in Missouri and Oklahoma. But the the order is 3 years old at this point. Both states had expanded Medicaid before that, and so, you know, they're on the road on ...
The Missouri Supreme Court will hear arguments on Medicaid expansion on July 13, according to attorney Chuck Hatfield.
have expanded Medicaid, including neighboring Missouri, Oklahoma and Nebraska. But it usually happens through citizen-led ballot initiatives, which don’t exist in Kansas. For now, that leaves the Statehouse, and the powerful Republicans who control it, as the only p...
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Medicaid Expansion Medicaid’s DRG Conversion DSH FRA Managed Care Federal Reimbursement Allowance (FRA) Missouri’s Federal Reimbursement Allowance program directly benefits Missouri’s economic and health care infrastructure. This highly successful public/private partnership serves as a model of vision, cr...
the pandemic, Medicaid expansion in Nebraska, Missouri, and Oklahoma, and the federal continuous coverage provision that began in December 2020. Continuous coverage provided a 6.2 percent increase in federal Medicaid match rate to states to keep Americans enrolled without having to re-enroll each ...