Health care providers, physicians, hospital associations and even some GOP lawmakers are sounding the alarm on the impact of ...

Missouri has already seen 21 hospital closures since 2014, and another 25 are currently at risk as the proposed legislation moves through Congress. Weisgrau said rural providers could lose up to 21 ...

Those anecdotes from Missourians navigating the state’s Medicaid program come at a time when greater enforcement is being ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...