Missouri is denying severely disabled children full access to services and failing to prevent unnecessary placements in institutions, according to a federal lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed this week on behalf of nine children and teenagers with medically complex conditions ...

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Parents who no longer qualify for government health care but fail to sign up their children separately are partly to blame for the drop in children’s Medicaid coverage, a top legislative budget said, much to the chagrin of some lawmakers ...

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Missouri’s Democratic Auditor Nicole Galloway said she would support expanding the number of people eligible for Medicaid if she’s elected governor. The candidate in a statement praised a bipartisan plan to expand state health coverage in Kansas that’s being spearheaded ...

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Missouri officials are citing an improved economy as one of several factors that led to close to 90,000 children being dropped from the state’s Medicaid health insurance program in the past year, although some lawmakers are still unsatisfied with the ...

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Data shows nearly 90,000 children and close to 23,000 adults were dropped from Missouri’s Medicaid health care program in the past year, prompting a state Democratic leader to call for an investigation. House Minority Leader Crystal Quade this week publicly ...

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