Medicaid

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.

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.

Open enrollment to buy health coverage on the federal health insurance marketplace ended on Tuesday. In Missouri, more than 300,000 people have signed up for health plans. The number of people buying plans on healthcare.gov has increased since 2020, with Missouri’s enrollment on track to hit a record high in 2024.