Health Care Industry

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.

Interviews with advocates, applicants, participants and experts reveal that increased pressure on the social service agency’s capacity has intensified bureaucratic hurdles for low-income and low-resource Missourians trying to access government health insurance.

Affinia Healthcare received nearly $390,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide Afghan refugees with health care education and wellness services.

A federal lawsuit filed before Medicaid unwinding began alleges that a dysfunctional system prevents low-income Missouri residents from getting food aid. Now, advocates say systemic flaws have escalated into a crisis for the most vulnerable.

The Illinois Department of Family and Human Services says it’s not ready to implement cost-saving measure implemented by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker's administration.

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, U.S. Rep. Cori Bush and representatives from Planned Parenthood of St. Louis and other clinics that perform abortions in Illinois gathered in the same conference room where they first learned of the Dobbs decision last year.

Missouri lawmakers this year passed the No Patient Left Alone Act as a result of some patients being unable to have visitors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Months later, the impact of the law is likely dependent on a future health emergency.

Democrats say the expansion will lower health care costs by reducing care administered at emergency rooms, while Republicans argue it will incentivize illegal immigration and overburden the state’s health system.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual care was seen as a fringe movement that wouldn't work as well as in-person visits. All that has changed in the past year.

It didn’t take a pandemic to prove that the U.S. health care system is broken, but this year’s COVID-19 outbreak certainly provided more evidence of what we all knew. To fix it, we need to “change the entire game,” says Rita Numerof, president and co-founder of the health care consulting firm Numerof & Associates.