The committee tasked with advising the Mississippi Division of Medicaid met Friday for the first time in a year and a half. ...

Mississippi is among 10 states that haven’t expanded Medicaid eligibility to include people earning up to 138% of the federal poverty level, or $20,120 annually for a single person.

Mississippi Division of Medicaid also submitted a presumed eligibility program plan to the federal government and has yet to receive any feedback on it, Westerfield said Wednesday morning.

President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill, signed into law earlier this month, slashes social safety net programs that ...

If Mississippi lawmakers do expand Medicaid, Adcock said the next step would be to educate health care providers, clinic networks and hospitals about this group of newly covered individuals and ...

In Mississippi, Medicaid coverage for pregnant women 19 and older is based on income. A woman in that age category who has no dependents can receive up to about $29,000 and qualify for Medicaid ...

Mississippi currently incarcerates 507 people aged 65 or older, according to MDOC. To save money, some states have expanded compassionate release policies to send people home, where Medicaid and ...

Medicaid covers about 60 percent of births in Mississippi; Ms. Israel said that means most pregnant women have access to an obstetrician. “But the outcomes are still horrible,” she said.

The Fairness Project, working with Medicaid expansion supporters in Mississippi, says more than 200,000 people would gain healthcare coverage and the state would save more than $800 million in ...