Posts tagged mississippi medicaid

Mississippi outranks neighboring states in denying disability claims

Amanda Evans sought Social Security Disability Income 20 years after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when her advancing condition made it more and more difficult for her to move around her Pearl home.

Mississippi NewsKatherine MitchellDecember 16, 2019mississippi news, mississippi center for investigative reporting, mississippi medicaid, Social Security Disability, SSDI, Mississippi disability, Mississippi disability claims

Miss. forfeits $1M daily in Medicaid funds. Could they help the uninsured 77,000 battling mental illness?

By resisting Medicaid expansion, Mississippi is forfeiting more than $1 million a day that could help thousands of uninsured people with untreated mental illnesses and health care providers drowning in uncompensated costs, said state Sen. Hob Bryan, vice chairman of the Senate Medicaid Committee.

mental healthKatherine MitchellNovember 3, 2019mississippi news, mississippi center for investigative reporting, mental health, mississippi's mental health care maze, mississippi's mental health, medicaid expansion, mississippi medicaid