More Missouri kids are losing health coverage. A new Georgetown report says the child uninsured rate nationwide just hit its ...

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 ...

In the special session that ended Sept. 12, lawmakers approved measures that would block the ballot process that delivered medical marijuana, Medicaid expansion, reproductive care, and paid sick leave ...

KSHB 41 reporter Elyse Schoenig covers the cities of Shawnee and Mission. She also focuses on issues surrounding the cost of health care, saving for retirement and personal debt. Share your story idea ...

Approximately 25 percent of individuals who have applied for Medicaid under Missouri's recent expansion have been enrolled. In less than a week since the Missouri Department of Social Services began ...

The state of Missouri has overbilled Medicaid by about $20.5 million for administrative costs in schools associated with services for low-income students or those with disabilities, according to a ...

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Missouri’s 67 rural hospitals are pondering a dramatically different future under President Donald Trump’s new budget plan. The recently approved budget bill will slash federal Medicaid spending by ...

Sixty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson stood with former President Harry S. Truman to sign it into law in Independence. Now it’s been slashed. LBJ Library photo by WHPO Sixty years ago, ...

Audrain Community Hospital in Mexico, Missouri, closed its doors in 2022. Rural hospital leaders say the recently approved federal budget plan will impact patients no matter what type of insurance ...