Current Missouri law limits Medicaid postpartum care to 60 days. ... 2023, at the Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region & Southwest Missouri’s clinic in the Central West End. ...

In a decision Wednesday, the Missouri Supreme Court once again ruled the legislature’s attempt to defund Planned Parenthood through the budget was unconstitutional. The state’s Medicaid ...

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 ...

Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature on Wednesday passed a bill to ban Medicaid funding from going to Planned Parenthood, a move they have tried for years in a state where almost all abortions ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday signed legislation to once again try to kick Planned Parenthood out of the state’s Medicaid program.

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.

Medicaid funds pay for nearly 50% of births in Missouri. In outlining the state’s high maternal mortality rate, DHSS said that 77% of pregnancy-related deaths were determined to be preventable.

For the second time in four years, the Missouri Supreme Court denied efforts to ban abortion providers and affiliates from receiving Medicaid funds. Missouri Supreme Court again says state can’t ...