The Beacon reported that the new operator of Fitzgibbon Hospital in Marshall, Missouri ended labor and delivery within weeks of the September sale. The hospital delivered 252 babies in 2025.
Missouri's Department of Social Services told the Missouri Independent it has not decided whether to accept self-attestation of medical frailty in 2027.
MO HealthNet announced it will drop precertification for psychotherapy for services on or after September 1, 2026. Individual therapy is limited to one unit a day and five a month, now counted per participant across all providers.
The Missouri Department of Social Services issued RFI 0000000012SL seeking vendor input on two tracks: maternal care monitoring, and specialist telehealth access for rural hospitals.
Missouri DSS says it began mailing informational Adult Expansion Group outreach notices in August to more than 300,000 MO HealthNet participants in households that may be affected by federal community-engagement requirements.
MO HealthNet's official download page marks its provider fee-schedule files as updated July 29, 2026 and directs users to individual downloadable workbooks after the full online fee search ended July 1.
Family Care Health Centers reported on June 4, 2026 that a May 21 ribbon-cutting opened its third location, a new 27,000-square-foot facility at 3824 South Grand Boulevard in St. Louis's Dutchtown neighborhood.
Observed July 16, 2026, Katy Trail Community Health's current homepage says it serves Sedalia, Versailles, Marshall and Warsaw and advertises same-day dental care, bookable telemedicine, a physician on call 24/7/365…
Ozarks Community Health Center's current Urbana page lists its medical and behavioral-health center at 406 S. Dallas Street as open 8 a.m.–6 p.m. Monday and 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Friday, with an after-hours pathway to an on-call physician.
Swope Health Services launched dental services at its Belton clinic effective January 14, 2025, adding comprehensive care for children and adults alongside the site’s existing primary care.
Missouri DSS's current Rural Health Transformation page says the ToRCH Care hub-anchor application is closed and publishes an onboarding and operations manual covering governance, staffing, workflows, localized programs, data tools and templates.
Gov. Mike Kehoe signed Missouri's FY2027 operating and capital budget on June 30, 2026: $50.7 billion before vetoes and about $49.8 billion afterward, including $24.8 billion for health programs.
The Missouri Hospital Association's FY2027 budget recap reports that Gov. Mike Kehoe vetoed language in the Department of Social Services appropriation bill concerning reporting requirements for 340B entities.
Jordan Valley Health, a Springfield-based federally qualified health center, launched a mobile clinic for north St. Louis City and County on July 9, 2026.
NACHC's current funding page says discretionary community health center funding expires September 30, 2026, and mandatory Community Health Center Fund support expires December 31, 2026.
Missouri Revised Statutes §334.104 requires a written collaborative practice arrangement when a physician delegates treatment or prescribing authority to an APRN. The agreement must identify authorized locations and specify collaboration.
A November 2025 Missouri Independent commentary reports roughly 358,000 adult-expansion enrollees and explains that the federal government covers 90% of expansion costs.
The Missouri Primary Care Association's 2025 sponsorship packet supplies a dated operating baseline: in 2023, Missouri community health centers served more than 644,000 people through more than 2.3 million encounters, reaching residents in every county.
Missouri lawmakers reviewed a $294.6 million Department of Social Services request, including $35 million in general revenue, to implement federally mandated changes across safety-net programs.
A March 26 report cites a current estimate that 150,000 people in Missouri could lose Medicaid coverage under federal work requirements and other eligibility changes; the figure is a projection, not a confirmed loss count.
A Washington University analysis cited by St. Louis Public Radio found that 67% of Missouri Medicaid expansion adults who would be subject to the federal requirement were working: 38% full-time and 29% part-time.
CMS data cited by KCUR show 333,265 MO HealthNet coverage terminations from January 2025 through February 2026, and 91.9% were procedural because the state could not determine continued eligibility from the available paperwork.
The Missouri House's official tracker describes HJR 154 as a proposed constitutional amendment concerning MO HealthNet work requirements. Its final workflow marks 'Sent to Senate' complete but 'Truly Agreed' and 'Sent to Governor' incomplete.
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