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Update June 9 with signature: Gov. Jay Nixon signed legislation on Thursday that could expand Medicaid eligibility for Missourians who are elderly or...
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On a rainy Tuesday morning in May, social worker Meghan Bragers drove up to Ferguson, Mo. to visit a 23-year-old expectant mother named Marie Anderson....
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Senators have voted to increase how much money aging, blind and disabled Missourians on Medicaid can keep in assets.Senators…
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Earlier this year, 69-year-old Aneita McCloskey needed her two front teeth filed down and capped. “They were kind of worn down and they were also...
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The House has voted to send a supplemental budget bill to the Senate that calls for nearly $500 million more in spending this year.Lawmakers voted 139-7…
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Carla used to get dialysis a couple of times a week at the public hospital in Indianapolis, Eskenazi Hospital. She would sit in a chair for hours as a…
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Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Representatives from all four campuses to help determine new UM system presidentConcealed carry…
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded just under 23 million dollars in Planning Grants to 25 states across the country to support…
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Even Medicaid is out of reach for some of Missouri’s poorest children, who are uninsured at a rate 2.5 times as high as their counterparts in Illinois....
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Congress established Medicaid fifty years ago today as a health insurance program for the poor, with the intention that the program would provide care...