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A recent report estimated that the state used an average of 70 days to process typical Medicaid applications, 25 days longer than allowed by federal law. An expansion in the state’s Medicaid took effect in summer 2021.
While 64,210 people have been approved as part of the expansion that took effect in the summer 2021, nearly 73,000 applications were pending as of early February. Until the expansion went into effect, for nearly a decade, Missouri’s Republican political leaders resisted expanding eligibility for Medicaid.
Aneka French applied for Medicaid in October, not long after Missouri became the 38th state to expand eligibility for the program. For nearly a decade, Missouri's Republican political leaders resisted expanding eligibility for Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for people with low incomes. Now, Missouri has more pending applications for...
Missouri is taking an average of 70 days to process typical applications — longer than the 45 days allowed by federal law. Most other states are processing Medicaid applications within a week, with many cases taking less than a day.
Aneka French applied for Medicaid in October, not long after Missouri became the 38th state to expand eligibility for the program.