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The report says 978 children went missing from foster care in the state in 2019. -
The Department of Social Services will begin accepting applicants to the health care program on Friday. -
While the state is accepting applications for Medicaid coverage under expanded eligibility, it says it can't start processing those applications before October 1. -
State officials said eligible individuals would not be enrolled until Oct. 1 due to system updates. -
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. -
A new audit found problems with how Missouri’s Medicaid system determined whether a participant in the health care program is still eligible.Federal… -
The number of people enrolled in the state’s Medicaid program reached a five-year low in December, falling to 846,554. That’s 130,000 fewer people —… -
An estimated 30% of Missouri youth in foster care or group homes are on psychotropic drugs of some sort — nearly twice the national average for kids that… -
Inmates at a Missouri prison will be able to prepare for the workforce prior to their release, thanks to an in-house training program. The Re-Entry Center… -
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…