Disability Rights Mississippi invites community to free Medicaid Clinic
Disability Rights Mississippi is hosting a free Medicaid clinic next week. Amelia Tomsic joins us with details. The clinic takes place on March 24 at the Knight…
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Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE
By KIMBERLY KINDY and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will gain access to personally identifiable information for all of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees. That's according to an agreement obtained by The Associated Press.…
States can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court rules
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Updated 11:00 AM CDT, June 26, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that states can block the country’s biggest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, from receiving Medicaid money for health services such as contraception and cancer…
Checking Medicaid in the state
JACKSON, Miss. (WXXV)-We’re about three weeks away from the 2025 Legislative Session coming to an end. There’s been very little talk about expanding Medicaid in Mississippi. It’s been a hot topic…
Biden proposes requiring Medicare, Medicaid to cover weight loss drugs
By Evan Bush The Biden administration plans to require Medicare and Medicaid to offer coverage of weight loss medications for patients seeking to treat obesity. The new rule, which was proposed by the administration on Tuesday, would dramatically expand access to…
Mississippi legislative leaders advocate Medicaid expansion, heading to conflict with the governor
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s Republican legislative leaders said Thursday that they plan to push for Medicaid expansion to cover working people who earn too little to afford private insurance — a position that business groups have advocated but…
Drugs to treat diabetes, heart disease and blood cancers among those affected by price negotiations
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated 3:42 PM CDT, August 15, 2024 The Biden administration says Medicare recipients will save about $1.5 billion on out-of-pocket costs for medications to treat diabetes, heart disease, types of arthritis and other ailments under new prices negotiated with drug companies…
Medicaid expansion effort collapses in Mississippi Legislature
BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Updated 8:19 PM CDT, May 2, 2024 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Medicaid expansion efforts fizzled and died Thursday in Mississippi because top lawmakers could not agree on a final proposal to send to the House and Senate. This…
Medicaid expansion discussions could fall apart Mississippi
BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Updated 8:16 AM CDT, May 2, 2024 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The first serious effort by Mississippi’s Legislature to expand Medicaid appeared to be crumbling Thursday as leaders argued over whether to let voters decide the issue.…
Mississippi Medicaid expansion plan could struggle for bipartisan support, Democratic leader says
BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Medicaid expansion plan endorsed by leaders in the Republican-led Mississippi Legislature could struggle for bipartisan support because it includes a work requirement that is unlikely to receive federal approval, the state House Democratic leader…
Mississippi lawmakers expected to vote on Medicaid expansion plan with work requirement
BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi lawmakers are expected to vote this week on a proposal that would expand Medicaid coverage to tens of thousands more people, but it includes a work requirement that might not win federal approval.…
Mississippi lawmakers haggle over possible Medicaid expansion as their legislative session nears end
BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Top Mississippi lawmakers started negotiating Tuesday on what could become a landmark plan to expand Medicaid coverage to tens of thousands of people in the state. But even with Republicans controlling both the…
Medicaid expansion plans and school funding changes still alive in Mississippi Legislature
BY MICHAEL GOLDBERG AND EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Bills to expand Medicaid and rewrite the funding formula for public schools are among measures still alive in the Mississippi Legislature. Tuesday was the deadline for House and Senate committees to consider…
Mississippi Senate passes trimmed Medicaid expansion and sends bill back to the House
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi lawmakers will try to negotiate on expanding Medicaid in one of the poorest states in the U.S. after the Senate voted Thursday for a vastly different plan than one proposed by the House. The upper…
Mississippi Senate Republicans push Medicaid expansion ‘lite’ proposal that would cover fewer people
BY MICHAEL GOLDBERG JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A proposal to expand Medicaid to tens of thousands of residents in one of the poorest states in the U.S. is still alive in the Mississippi Legislature . But Senate Republicans changed the plan…
Mississippi has the nation’s worst infant mortality. It will allow earlier Medicaid to help babies
BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Updated 10:41 AM CDT, March 13, 2024 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A new Mississippi law will allow earlier Medicaid coverage for pregnant women in an effort to improve health outcomes for mothers and babies in a state…
Who will the proposed Medicaid expansion help?
After nearly 100,000 people were dropped from Medicaid last year, the Mississippi senate will now see a bill that promotes expanding Medicaid. The new program will be known as…
Mississippi passes quicker pregnancy Medicaid coverage to try to reduce deaths of moms and babies
BY MICHAEL GOLDBERG Updated 2:58 PM CST, February 29, 2024 Share JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Legislature is sending a bill to the governor that will allow women with low incomes to get Medicaid coverage earlier in pregnancy, in an…
Medicaid expansion proposal advances through Mississippi House, will go to Senate
BY MICHAEL GOLDBERG Updated 3:07 PM CST, February 28, 2024 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s Republican-led House passed a bill Wednesday that would expand Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands more residents, — a landmark shift after state leaders refused to consider…
Federal government approves part of Mississippi’s plan to help struggling hospitals
BY MICHAEL GOLDBERG JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The federal government has approved the first part of Mississippi’s plan to help some of the state’s financially strapped hospitals receive more Medicaid money, Gov. Tate Reeves said Wednesday. The Centers for Medicare and…
Mississippi has new laws taking effect July 1. Here's what you need to know
The Mississippi Legislature passed several bills signed into law by Gov. Tate Reeves that will take effect starting July 1. The laws range from a public registry of people convicted of misspending public money to making it a misdemeanor to…
Mississippi governor OKs longer postpartum Medicaid coverage
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed legislation Thursday to solidify a full year of Medicaid coverage for women after they give birth, saying it’s part of a “new pro-life agenda” to help mothers now that abortion access is…
Mississippi backs 1 year of postpartum Medicaid for new moms
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Low-income new mothers in Mississippi will be eligible for a full year of Medicaid health coverage under a bill passed Tuesday by the state Legislature. The bipartisan move is the culmination of a two-year effort to…
Governor Reeves signals support for Medicaid bill providing coverage for new moms
Governor Tate Reeves spoke out on the debate over postpartum Medicaid coverage in Mississippi, saying for the first time that he will sign a…