by admin | Jan 5, 2006 | News
Medicaid reform has become an immediate flashpoint in this year’s legislative session. Republicans say they’re leading a reform effort. Democrats say all the Republicans are doing is cutting the program. Democrat Senator Patrick Dougherty of St. Louis says...
by admin | Jan 4, 2006 | News
A new legislative session might have started, but old arguments are still being debated. House Speaker Rod Jetton defends Medicaid cuts pushed through last year by Republicans, saying they saved the program without harming the state’s poorest residents. Jetton...
by admin | Dec 21, 2005 | News
A special Senate committee is going to invetigate Medicaid fraud by providers of Medicaid services. The formation of the committee comes three days after the Kansas City Star ran articles charging private contractors over-bill the proram by hundreds of millions of...
by admin | Dec 21, 2005 | News
A special State Senate committee has been created to examine fraud by Medicaid providers. Critics of the Medicaid reforms passed earlier this year charged it focused entirely on recipients, but ignored fraud by people supposedly providing services. Last weekend, the...
by admin | Dec 16, 2005 | Politics / Govt
The Secretary of State has approved two more petitions for circulation. One calls for a statewide vote on a change in school funding to allow use of public money for religious purposes and institutions. It also prohibits school districts from raising funds through...
