Courtney Leader has been closely following the contentious tax-and-spending debate in Washington – not that she cares much for politics, but because she believes the proposed Medicaid cuts are a ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

After Missouri lawmakers’ previous attempt to halt Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood was blocked by the state's Supreme Court, they’re trying again.

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 ...