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

Hundreds of thousands of poor, disabled or pregnant Mississippians could lose health care coverage if Congress slashes funding for Medicaid.

After two rounds of votes, the bill passed with a vote of 217 to 215. The bill proposes $2 trillion in cuts from the budget which could take funding from social programs like Medicaid. With one in four Mississippians heavily relying on Medicaid,

More than three years ago, health insurance giant Centene Corp. settled allegations that it overcharged Medicaid programs in Ohio and Mississippi related to prescription drug billing.

Mississippi— has traditionally been the recipient of more federal dollars per capita than any other. We’ve lived off the federal spending spigot for most of our lives.

Gov. Tate Reeves is having none of it, however, balking at the feds’ benevolence with hardline recalcitrance toward expanding the Medicaid.

With recent focus statewide and nationally on social safety net programs, any changes could impact hundreds of thousand of Mississippians. Some in Congress are skeptical that roughly a trillion dollars in cuts could be afforded without taking out substantial funding from programs like Medicaid.

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

Find out how the proposed Medicaid budget cuts could affect millions of enrollees and the health centers they rely on.

As of August 2024, approximately 642,000 Mississippians relied on Medicaid and CHIP for healthcare coverage. Although Mississippi has not yet adopted Medicaid expansion, discussions about its ...