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 ...
From 'Momnibus' to child care vouchers, states are starting to do more for new mothers. But there are still some pain points.
State lawmakers failed to reach a compromise, dashing hopes of extending largely free health care to most low-income ...
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.
Will Mississippi’s movement on Medicaid expansion impact Texas legislators ... poor pregnant and postpartum mothers, and the disabled to get coverage. However, individual plans are often out ...
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi Senate leaders on Friday said for the first time that they are willing to expand Medicaid to the full level allowed under a federal law signed 14 years ago by then ...
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 ...
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 ...
Laws permitting states to sterilize women whom lawmakers thought would be unfit parents were so common throughout the South ...
The law will lower the income eligibility to qualify for Medicaid from 375 percent of the federal poverty line, the most ...