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The Department of Health and Senior Services is responsible for managing and promoting all public health programs to improve life and wellness for Missourians. [1] They are responsible for maintaining programs to control and prevent disease; regulation and licensure of health and child care facilities; and programs designed to create safeguards and health resources for seniors and the state's ...
A mandatory Medicaid managed care program is in place for eligible participants in the eastern, central, and western areas of the state. Children, pregnant women, TANF families, and children in state custody receive their medical care through managed care organizations, allowing the state to ensure access to health care and control costs at the ...
As of April, the state was taking an average of 101 days to process an application to the low-income health care program. Decrease in Medicaid wait times coming, official says, as Missouri ...
2020 Missouri Amendment 2, also known as the Medicaid Expansion Initiative, was a ballot measure to amend the Constitution of Missouri to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. The initiative was on the August 4, 2020, primary ballot and passed with 53.27% of the vote. [ 1 ]
It took a median time — the metric DSS is required to report to the federal government — of 49 days in December to process a Medicaid application for the group that includes most low-income ...
Missouri lawmakers returned to the Capitol on Monday with a long list of policy priorities and just eight weeks to get them done. Budget, Medicaid funding could dominate final weeks of Missouri ...
The Federally Facilitated Marketplace (FFM) is an organized marketplace for health insurance plans operated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The FFM opened for enrollments starting October 1, 2013. [1]
“Medicaid is an important program for hospitals and clearly is a safety net for many patients who have disabilities, are blind, are low income, you know, seniors, so it is absolutely existential ...