Do you know how many people in Mississippi get medical help through Medicare and Medicaid? What you need to know about the ...

As the 90-day session comes closer to an end, the idea of Medicaid expansion isn't looking very promising this year in ...

The talk of such dramatic changes to the federal-state program has Mississippi lawmakers concerned – and hesitant to push ...

Mississippi lawmakers are unlikely to expand Medicaid this year as they wait to see how federal funding for the program might change. Both the House and Senate have "dummy bills" related to ...

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 ...

Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Tennessee all have submitted waivers to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to launch Medicaid work programs, Tolbert said. About 2 in 3 ...

The nation’s poorest state — Mississippi — has traditionally been the recipient of more federal dollars per capita than any other commonwealth. We’ve lived off the federal spending spigot ...

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 ...

In Mississippi, for instance, the federal government picks up 77% of the cost of Medicaid. States also receive a 90% match from the federal government for enrollees eligible for Medicaid under the ...

In Mississippi, for instance, the federal government picks up 77% of the cost of Medicaid. States also receive a 90% match from the federal government for enrollees eligible for Medicaid under the ...