The continuing growth in states’ Medicaid programs has placed a severe financial strain on state budgets. In fiscal year 2024, Medicaid was the largest category of total state spending, consuming 29.8 ...
CMS approved its first 10-year Section 1115 Medicaid waiver Dec. 28, authorizing Mississippi to continue its family planning waiver through 2027. The waiver, which has been in place in Mississippi for ...
Explore Medicaid waivers, learn about eligibility criteria, and discover the various types, including home and ...
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi is one step closer to what would be a landmark shift in healthcare policy, with the Republican-led House preparing to debate expansion of Medicaid benefits to hundreds of ...
With only minutes to spare, a group of Mississippi lawmakers came to a final compromise on a version of Medicaid expansion Monday that is now heading to both the Senate and House of Representatives ...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi's Republican-led House passed a bill Wednesday that would expand Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands more residents in one of the poorest states in the U.S. — ...
With plans for the Mississippi Senate to bring out its own version of Medicaid expansion now dead in the water, Senate Medicaid Chair Sen. Kevin Blackwell is now planning to use the House's version as ...
Several dozen doctors and health care leaders gathered at the Capitol Thursday to advocate for Medicaid expansion and call on Senate leaders – who have remained quiet on the House expansion bill that ...