Missouri notified CMS it is formally withdrawing its planned Medicaid expansion, the state governor’s office said May 13. Missouri residents voted in favor of expanding the state’s Medicaid program ...

The proposed ballot measure, if approved by a majority of Missouri voters, would make it more difficult for the state to ...

MO Healthnet Division Director Todd Richardson will step down from his position leading the state’s Medicaid program at the end of October, according to a spokesperson for the Missouri Department of ...

ST. LOUIS — Missouri has seen some of the nation’s biggest shifts in health coverage in recent years, driven by the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid expansion and the end of pandemic-era protections. A ...

Centene CEO Michael Neidorff threatened to leave Missouri after the state decided to withdraw plans for Medicaid expansion, according to NBC affiliate KSDK. “As the largest provider of Medicaid in the ...

Wearing her heart sunglasses, Alicia Hernandez, center, joins around 150 people at a Missouri Jobs with Justice and partners press event and rally “to remind leaders that Medicaid expansion is a ...

Demonstrators stand outside of the Governor's Mansion in Jefferson City on July 1, 2021 and hold signs urging Gov. Mike Parson to fund voter-approved Medicaid expansion (Tessa Weinberg/Missouri ...

Voters expanded Medicaid eligibility in 2020 to reduce the number of uninsured adults, stabilize hospitals and bring more federal tax dollars back into the state’s health system. At the time expansion ...

The state had struggled in recent years to meet federal requirements with programs like Medicaid.

Todd Richardson, left, director of the MO HealthNet Division, testifies in March 2022 on the fiscal 2023 Medicaid budget. Richardson will be stepping down as division director by the end of October.