Medicare, Medicaid numbers: How many people use federal health insurance in Mississippi?
Do you know how many people in Mississippi get medical help through Medicare and Medicaid? What you need to know about the ...
The Star-Herald6d
As Congress moves toward potential Medicaid cuts, expansion grows more unlikely in Mississippi
Hundreds of thousands of poor, disabled or pregnant Mississippians could lose health care coverage if Congress slashes ...
InsuranceNewsNet4h
New Mississippi Division of Medicaid director shares information with lawmakers, addresses concerns
Lawmakers heard from new Mississippi Division of Medicaid Executive Director Cindy Bradshaw on Monday in a joint legislative meeting with House and Senate members. Mississippi's current budget for the ...
Mississippi gets more federal funds than it pays in taxes. Here's what that money gets you
Ever wonder how much Mississippi sends to the federal government in taxes vs. how much residents get back? Here's what we ...
The Yazoo Herald5d
More Medicaid worries
Social Security and Medicare have historically been considered untouchable because the main beneficiaries of those two ...
UPI3d
Trimming Medicaid would be hard, despite GOP lawmakers' goal
Ten states haven't expanded Medicaid yet. Two of them, Georgia and Mississippi, have seriously considered doing so. In an interesting coincidence, Medicaid itself costs around $880 billion a year ...
The New York Times6d
Republicans Want to Gut Medicaid. They Might Regret It.
Gutting Medicaid means attacking a program backed ... like West Virginia and Mississippi, get over 70 percent.) Significant cuts to this funding would send fiscal shock waves through state ...
The Clarion-Ledger3d
Mississippi gets more federal funds than it pays in taxes. Here's what that money gets you
Mississippi receives more than $2 in federal ... About 53% of federal transfer spending to states, $584.9 billion, covered Medicaid and CHIP, per OMB and the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
The Clarion-Ledger4d
1 MS hospital among nation's top performers, according to Healthgrades. It is not in Jackson
Only one Mississippi hospital ranked in the top 5 ... Providers and Systems survey data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
mississippitoday.org6d
Prenatal care for poor women may be a casualty of political infighting
Senate Medicaid Chairman Kevin Blackwell, R-Southaven, told Mississippi Today he will not be taking up a House bill to fix the issues in the program. He called it “his prerogative as chairman” – ...
KFF Health News1d
CMS Rescinds Waivers For CHIP Programs, ‘Section 1115’ Medicaid
The agency said Tuesday it will consider states’ applications on a case-by-case basis, Modern Healthcare reported. The programs pay for high-risk services such as help for people transitioning from ...
Virginia Mercury3d
GOP tax cut plans may depend on savings from Medicaid. What is it and who relies on it?
(Photo by Lucas Ninno/Getty Photos) Medicaid covers 63% of the 1.2 million nursing home residents in the country, according to KFF. West Virginia, Alaska, Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia are the ...