Drama erupted at the Mississippi State Capitol on Thursday as lawmakers continued to work on an deal to expand Medicaid for ...
Mississippi Senate Medicaid expansion Conference Committee members skipped an important meeting Thursday to continue ...
Mississippi House Medicaid Committee Chairman Rep. Missy McGee, R-Hattiesburg, second from right, noting the empty seats on ...
Strapped with a bill from his childhood injury, Sen. Chad McMahan's family struggled with the medical debt. He wants to help ...
In Humphreys County, Mississippi—about 70 miles north of the state capital, in the heart of the fertile Delta region—a third of the residents live in poverty. In Belzoni, the county seat, there are ...
A little under 3.6 million babies were born in 2023, according to provisional statistics released Thursday by the Centers for ...
Medicaid reimbursement rates for behavioral health services are below the cost of providing care; the rates are causing discrepancies in care and threaten the wellbeing of many of our community ...
Mississippi legislators usually meet in private to negotiate final versions of bills, but they agreed this year to hold open ...
Advocate groups and survivors shared their concerns about Black maternal health care in Louisiana at the Capitol as lawmakers hear proposed bills.
A long history of inequity led to the stark maternal healthcare disparities Black parents are facing but it doesn't have to ...
As Mississippi lawmakers look for compromise between widely differing House and Senate Mississippi Medicaid expansion plans, ...
The six members, called conferees, will attempt to forge an agreement over the different versions of the expansion plan that ...