By DAVID A. LIEB (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Republican senators resoundingly rejected a plan Wednesday to expand Medicaid coverage to several hundred thousand lower-income adults as they began debate… Read more »
Tag: Medicaid
Former Sen. Bond now lobbying for Medicaid growth
By DAVID A. LIEB (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — As a Republican senator, Kit Bond voted against the federal health care overhaul. Now lobbying for a prominent business group, Bond… Read more »
Mo. senator files Medicaid overhaul plan
By DAVID A. LIEB (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Private insurers would gain a greater role in Missouri’s Medicaid program and patients could get rewarded financially for holding down their… Read more »
Doctors propose pilot program for Mo. Medicaid
By DAVID A. LIEB (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Some doctors want to make Missouri’s Medicaid program a little more like a health club. A proposal outlined by a pair… Read more »
Mo. Senate panel rejects Medicaid expansion
By DAVID A. LIEB (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Members of a special Senate committee looking at ways to “transform and reform” Missouri’s Medicaid program demonstrated Wednesday that little has… Read more »
Gov. Nixon invites Mo. lawmakers to Medicaid discussion
(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Gov. Jay Nixon is proposing a Thanksgiving week meeting with Missouri lawmakers to discuss potential changes to the Medicaid health care system. Nixon wants to… Read more »
Mo. to receive $26M through drug settlement
(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri’s Medicaid program will receive $26 million through a national settlement with a pharmaceutical company. The $2.2 billion settlement announced Monday involves Johnson & Johnson,… Read more »