After last year’s postpartum Medicaid extension bill was signed into law and this bill passage in the House, McGee said the state is focused on Mississippi’s mothers and babies. “Sadly ...
The Mississippi House Democratic leader says a Medicaid expansion plan endorsed by Republican leaders could struggle for bipartisan support JACKSON, Miss. -- A Medicaid expansion plan endorsed by ...
One overdue change has been a renewed emphasis on supporting the health of pregnant and new moms across the political ...
State lawmakers failed to reach a compromise, dashing hopes of extending largely free health care to most low-income ...
The Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives plans to offer the Senate a ballot referendum proposal for Mississippians to vote whether to expand Medicaid and how they want to do it. If ...
Doctors are more likely to push long-term contraceptives when treating Black, Latina, young, and low-income women ...
Mississippi Lt ... Last year, she also led the effort to extend Medicaid benefits to pregnant women, which increased post-partum eligibility from 60 days after giving birth to 12 months.
Extending postpartum Medicaid eligibility extensions may increase treatment for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs), a leading cause of perinatal illness and mortality, according to a new ...
Top Mississippi lawmakers started negotiating Tuesday on what could become a landmark plan to expand Medicaid coverage to tens of thousands of people in one of the poorest states in the U.S. But ...
But the stricter income thresholds in the law mean that other women and babies who currently qualify for two months of postpartum Medicaid coverage will no longer be eligible after the changes ...
Some health advocates say that Florida still has a ways to go to improve maternal and children’s health access and outcomes.
The law will lower the income eligibility to qualify for Medicaid from 375 percent of the federal poverty line, the most ...