by Associated Press Published: May 12,2013
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JACKSON — Mississippi Medicaid officials will resume paying state Health Department workers to help women with high-risk pregnancies. The agreement, announced Friday, starts June 1 and runs through June 30, 2014. Medicaid has typically paid the Health Department more than $8.5 million a year for the program. The new agreement reverses last month’s decision by [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 28,2012
Tags: expansion, federal, government, health, health benefit, health care, insurance, medical, medicine, public health, state
JACKSON — A spokesman for Mississippi’s Medicaid program is questioning the notion that expanding the federal-state health insurance program is the way to spur economic growth. Francis X. Rullan says he’s speaking only for himself in this instance. But he says it’s not a good idea to base an economic development effort on the dependency [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 5,2012
Tags: bill, health, health benefit, health care, health care reform, health insurance, law, lawmaker, legislator, Legislature, legislatuve, low income, medical, medicine, public health, state government
JACKSON — Black lawmakers in Mississippi say they support an expansion of the Medicaid program as part of the federal health care overhaul. The lawmakers, speaking at the state Capitol, say they will seek legislation to ratify covering more low-income adults in the 2013 Legislature. “We, the members of the legislative black caucus see this [...] [...]
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