Mississippi and Wyoming are the only two states in the country to have enacted neither a postpartum extension nor Medicaid expansion, though both states are currently considering postpartum extension ...
On Thursday, March 16, Governor Tate Reeves (R-Miss.) signed Senate Bill 2212 which extends postpartum care from two to 12 ...
If Reeves does sign the bill into law, Mississippi will no longer be the only state to neither extend postpartum coverage past 60 days or expanded Medicaid under the affordable care act.
Arkansas has the highest maternal mortality rate in the United States: 43.5 deaths from 2018 to 2021 for every 100,000 live ...
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed legislation expanding postpartum Medicaid coverage in the state Mississippi ...
Mississippi usually allows two months of postpartum Medicaid coverage. The state has allowed a full year of the coverage since the COVID-19 public health emergency started in 2020, although many ...
Gov. Tate Reeves signed a law to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage. This move puts the state in line with the rest of the ...
Mississippi Backs 1 Year of Postpartum Medicaid for New Moms JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Low-income new mothers in Mississippi will be eligible for a full year of Medicaid health coverage under a bill ...
Otis Anthony, D-Indianola, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, after the committee passed legislation that would extend postpartum Medicaid coverage from two months to a ...
The Mississippi Legislature has voted to send a bill to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage to the desk of Gov. Tate Reeves, who has vowed to sign it.
