Cost of Health Care

Employees can access health care with no out-of-pocket costs as long as they visit doctors or facilities that their company has a direct contract with.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker will include the $10 million ask in his budget proposal for the next fiscal year to erase $1 billion in Illinoisan's medical debt. The investment would mark the first in a multi-year plan.

The state-funded health care programs serving certain low-income noncitizens have declined by tens of millions of dollars in recent months as the state rolled out new copay and coinsurance requirements this week.

The pandemic has overwhelmed understaffed state Medicaid agencies, and as Biden's COVID-19 public health emergency declaration ends, low-income people could find it even harder to get coverage.

Conservative legislators don’t want to renew a tax on health care providers unless they can get amendments they say are “pro-life” added.

Eric Meusch, who farms 240 acres just outside Rolla, didn’t have health insurance for seven years until he recently got another job.“We signed up for a…

Iron County is one of the state’s least healthy counties, according to the Missouri Health Atlas.So when Iron County Medical Center in Pilot Knob, about…

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This week, Missouri transferred the state-run health coverage of about 240,000 low-income adults and children to managed care plans run by three…

When St. Louis cardiologist Paul Hauptman got a call from a 25-year-old patient who couldn’t afford to buy his prescription for a generic drug to treat…