Health care advocates in Jackson, Mississippi and Anchorage, Alaska express concern that Medicaid funding changes in ...

Last year Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves proposed a plan to use federal funding to increase Medicaid reimbursements to help hospitals, a nice move but such efforts aren’t tantamount to ...

As of August 2024, approximately 642,000 Mississippians relied on Medicaid and CHIP for healthcare coverage. Although Mississippi has not yet adopted Medicaid expansion, discussions about its ...

Tina, a 58-year-old Black woman living in the Delta, is Mississippi born and raised.[1] She raised four children and spent ...

Medicaid patients make up 15 to 20 percent of all of the patients in Mississippi hospitals, he said. "Medicaid serves young and old, different races, different genders," Roberson said.

Rep. Missy McGee, R-Hattiesburg, speaks during the Medicaid expansion conference committee meeting at the Mississippi State Capitol in downtown Jackson, April 23.

In Mississippi, Medicaid coverage for pregnant women 19 and older is based on income. A woman in that age category who has no dependents can receive up to about $29,000 and qualify for Medicaid ...

Under the new spending bill, the nation’s largest abortion provider would have to stop offering abortion in some states or ...

Why Medicaid expansion failed in Mississippi and Alabama this year : Shots - Health News More than a million people could get health care if these states would pass laws expanding Medicaid.

If Mississippi were to expand Medicaid, Brandon Allred thinks he could finally get the cancer screens he is certain he needs. Allred, 35, works full-time to support his family of six children in ...

Mississippi is the latest Republican-leaning state to be targeted for Medicaid expansion by The Fairness Project, which has already helped win six other ballot campaigns to expand health coverage ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Though patients don’t rush through the doors of this emergency room anymore, an empty hospital in ...