by admin | May 12, 2020 | Business, Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
A congressman who represents 30 counties across southern Missouri thanks the Trump Administration for reversing decisions involving rural hospitals and telehealth. U.S. Rep. Jason Smith, R-Salem, describes the two reversals as major wins for rural Missouri and rural...
by Ashley Byrd | May 8, 2020 | Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
Auditor Nicole Galloway’s office launched its transparency portal to track COVID-19 response spending by the State of Missouri. According to the site, the state has received $2.3 billion to date and disbursed $716 million. The auditor’s COVID-19 Response...
by Ashley Byrd | Apr 28, 2020 | Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
A bipartisan team of lawmakers, agency chiefs, and other advisors is helping Gov. Mike Parson to stay on top of massive amounts of federal money coming into Missouri for coping with COVID-19. The working group appointed by the governor made its first major move...
by Ashley Byrd | Apr 22, 2020 | Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
Missouri’s Senator Roy Blunt says Missouri hospitals will get their part of another $50 billion set aside from CARES Act funding this week. This week’s funding is based on past billing experience. “We’re trying to make this easy, not hard, and...
by Ashley Byrd | Apr 14, 2020 | News, Politics / Govt
State Auditor Nicole Galloway has the job of overseeing the billions of federal dollars coming into the state to be spent quickly on various programs to ease the COVID-19 health and economic crisis. “The [Parson] administration is going to have a lot of...
