Missouri kids to be enrolled in Medicaid for 12 months starting next year

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – In the last seven months, more than 135,000 Missourians have been removed from the state’s Medicaid program, and nearly half of them are children.

Until April of this year, states were prohibited from removing anyone from Medicaid due to the COVID public health emergency. Now, as Medicaid renewals are once again required, they come at a time when the federal government will soon mandate yearlong coverage for kids.

“I think there’s a lot of security for families in knowing that their child is going to have coverage for 12 months,” communications director for the Missouri Department of Social Services (DSS) Caitlin Whaley said. “It allows the ability to confidently schedule therapies and schedule any procedures that they might need.”

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(Story by Emily Manley, Kevin S. Held, ozarksfirst.com)