The states have been studying how to support their aging populations, but now critical federal funds won’t be available to ...

Kevin Wehner has been there for Missourians as they have dealt with unanswered questions, long wait times and the confusion ...

Health experts in Missouri and Kansas warn that the consequences of deep cuts to Medicaid will reverberate throughout both states' health care systems for years to come. The megabill recently ...

This summer, President Donald Trump has begun to chisel back Medicaid and food stamps. On a July day in 1965, President ...

The Missouri Budget Project, a left-leaning think tank, put the tally at up to 178,000 recipients. The Urban Institute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation put the number between 84,000 and 96,000.

SNAP-Ed reached 1 million Missouri residents annually. "I have worked with this for program for 27 years and it has been in Missouri since the fall of 1993, so 32 years. The impact is far reaching.

Let’s start with Medicaid. Missouri voters expanded it in 2020, and more than 300,000 residents have gained coverage since then. But the new law imposes work requirements for adults age 19 to 64 ...

Four rural Missouri hospitals are at risk of closure due to financial strain and high Medicaid payer mixes. The Sheps Center at UNC identified these hospitals based on negative margins and ...

Cuts to Medicaid and SNAP won't fully take effect until after the 2026 midterm elections, but states budget a year, or even two years into the future. Unlike the federal government, most states ...

Missouri will no longer receive money to administer a federal health education program that employed more than 200 people to teach nutrition programs throughout the state. The program’s funding was ...

The Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry said Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014 that Bond's lobbying firm has been hired to lobby his fellow Republicans in the Legislature to support Medicaid expansion.

Missouri has a long history of struggling to process MO HealthNet applications in a timely manner. As states prepare for new federal work requirements for Medicaid and SNAP, advocates worry about what ...