health insurance

Fewer Mo. residents get health insurance at work

Associated Press — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:06:15 +0000

The percentage of people who get health insurance through their employer has dropped significantly in Missouri during the past decade.

A report released Thursday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation says that fewer than 63 percent of Missouri residents had employer-sponsored health insurance in 2011, down from 75 percent in 2000.

Missouri's decline was greater than national average of a roughly 10 percentage point drop.

Koster requests clarification regarding contraception law

Associated Press — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 23:09:47 +0000

Attorney General Chris Koster wants a federal judge to clarify a recent ruling that struck down a Missouri law exempting moral objectors from mandatory birth control insurance coverage.

Bill forbids upcharge for "telemedicine" insurance

Associated Press — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:26:37 +0000

The Missouri Senate has approved legislation requiring insurance companies to cover medical services provided electronically if they cover for the same service delivered in person.

Mo. Senate endorses eating disorder study

Associated Press — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 23:01:39 +0000

The Missouri Senate has given preliminary approval to a bill that would study the cost of making insurance companies provide coverage for eating disorders.

Healthcare overhaul could change the way farmers access insurance

Rehman Tungekar — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:35:19 +0000

This week, we'll examine the Affordable Care Act's impact on farmers, and hear how one enzyme manufacturer was able to grow its business.

Health insurance unknowns loom for farmers as Affordable Care Act approaches

Amy Mayer — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:09:37 +0000

Marilyn Andersen raises angora goats and llamas for wool that she spins and weaves in her studio at Two Cedars Weaving in Story City, Iowa. She also has a part-time job coordinating distribution of local produce through a service called Farm to Folk. Neither effort comes with health insurance.

Judge blocks MO birth control insurance law

Associated Press — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 14:35:24 +0000

A federal judge has blocked a new Missouri law requiring insurers to offer policies excluding birth control coverage because it conflicts with a federal law mandating such coverage.

MU curators consider benefits proposal

The Associated Press — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 23:13:59 +0000

A long-sought proposal to extend University of Missouri worker benefits to same-sex domestic partners has been expanded to include committed couples of the opposite sex, as well as other unrelated dependent couples, such as roommates.

Half a million Missourians to gain insurance under health care law

Jacob Fenston — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:33:27 +0000

In Missouri, an estimated 835,000 people don't have health insurance – that's about 14 percent of the state's population. But in the next couple of years, that figure is going to change. Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld most of the federal health care law, about half a million Missourians will join the rolls of the insured – either through Medicaid, the private insurance market, or with the help of subsidies provided by the federal government. The percentage of uninsured will drop to five percent of the population.

Mo. insurers to issue nearly $61M in refunds

Véronique LaCapra — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:59:11 +0000

Some of Missouri's largest insurance companies will be refunding consumers almost $61 million this month under a provision of the federal healthcare law. Insurers who failed to spend at least 80 percent of premium-dollars on medical care and quality improvement have to repay the difference to consumers.