Tagged: federal healthcare law

Some of Missouri's largest insurance companies will be refunding consumers almost $61 million this month under a provision of the federal healthcare law. Insurers who failed to spend at least 80 percent of premium-dollars on medical care and quality improvement have to repay the difference to consumers.

Top Missouri Republicans say they have no intention of expanding Medicaid eligibility as a result of the Supreme Court's ruling on the federal health care law.

The high court struck down a provision Thursday that threatened states with the loss of existing federal Medicaid dollars if they refuse to expand coverage to adults earning up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level. That ruling essentially makes the expansion optional for states.

House Majority Leader Tim Jones says the Republican-led Legislature will not consider the expansion.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA News room, including:

• Healthcare rebuke passes Missouri House. 
• Missouri Senate passes education overhaul legislation.
• Ex-prosecutor denies telling witnesses what to say. 
• Missouri energy companies to collaborate on developing nuclear reactors in Callaway County. 

The Missouri House has passed legislation that seeks to both bar and criminalize enforcement of the 2010 federal health care law. 

A Missouri House panel has endorsed legislation making it a crime for federal officials to attempt to enforce the 2010 federal health care overhaul in the state.