Is Mississippi Medicaid intentionally stalling on timely health care for mothers?
The latest maternal mortality report shows Mississippi is still one of the most dangerous places in the country to give birth.
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The latest maternal mortality report shows Mississippi is still one of the most dangerous places in the country to give birth.
The state Medicaid director and a hospital CEO — neither of them doctors — bucked recommendations from health care professionals and delayed a vote that could have made it easier
More than 16,000 Mississippians were dropped from Medicaid in August during the latest round of the agency’s disenrollments. The pandemic-era federal regulations that prevented state Medicaid agencies from disenrolling beneficiaries ended in May. Since then, Medicaid divisions all over the country are reviewing their rolls for the first time in three years. In June, 29,460 [...]
August’s numbers bring the agency’s total number of disenrollments thus far to 68,626 people.
Can a Mississippi governor expand Medicaid? Experts are generally unsure about a question that has popped up in the 2023 governor's race.