In 2025, Missouri lawmakers passed legislation to eliminate its capital gains tax, phase out the state income tax and expand ...

For the 2.5 million Missourians in rural areas, health care is scarce and hospitals are struggling to survive.

Medicaid cuts in Congress would force all states into difficult corners. But Missouri’s situation would be genuinely strange. Because, after all of those years spent resisting Medicaid expansion, ...

Josh Moore succeeds Todd Richardson as new director of MO HealthNet Division, which administers Missouri's Medicaid program.

The U.S. Capitol (Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom). Policymakers and health advocates said Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” could be “devastating” to thousands of ...

Todd Richardson is no stranger to tough challenges. But in a wide-ranging interview with St. Louis Public Radio, Richardson said he doesn't shy away from difficult challenges or obstacles. In fact, he ...

The rule, which will last for six months, was a response to "an immediate danger to the public health, safety or welfare of pregnant women in Missouri," according to the state Department of Social ...

Advocates worry that tens of thousands of vulnerable Missourians will lose Medicaid and food stamps because of new administrative barriers proposed by the GOP-led Congress. Missouri has already come ...

Missouri has a new director of its Medicaid program. Josh Moore, a pharmacist, will begin immediately directing the MO ...

Missouri currently uses an antiquated, paper-based process to verify eligibility for most Medicaid benefits. State workers must type the information into a 17-year-old program known as the Family ...

Missouri legislators increased payments to Medicaid providers in 2022, leading to more providers agreeing to treat Medicaid ...

In an effort to address Missouri’s deplorable maternal mortality rates, the state issued an emergency rule Monday allowing doulas to be reimbursed through Medicaid for the next six months. Doulas — ...