Courtney Leader has been closely following the contentious tax and spending debate in Washington – not that she cares much ...

Courtney Leader is a mother of five children, one of whom has cerebral palsy and relies on Medicaid assistance in addition to ...

President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” could impact how Missouri and other states spend on Medicaid. The U.S. Senate’s ...

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

Crews reopened a stretch of I-44 in Lawrence County after a crash on Thursday morning. The crash closed both eastbound lanes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...