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A federal lawsuit filed before Medicaid unwinding began alleges that a dysfunctional system prevents low-income Missouri residents from getting food aid. Now, with Missouri reassessing the Medicaid enrollment of more than 1 million recipients, advocates said those systemic flaws have escalated into a crisis for the most vulnerable.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Missouri and Kansas could lose their Medicaid coverage anytime now because states have, once again, resumed eligibility checks after pandemic-era federal protections expired.

Enrollment is open for the Affordable Care Act Marketplace and some rules have been changed to help more workers get coverage for their families.

After being admitted to Freeman Health Services in Joplin, a patient whose water broke before 18 weeks of pregnancy could not obtain an emergency abortion because of Missouri's near-total ban. Now the hospital is under investigation for possible violations of a federal law requiring hospitals in the Medicare program to provide care for patients in emergency situations.

The lawsuit follows passage of a supplemental budget bill that bars abortion providers or their affiliates from being reimbursed through Medicaid.

Missouri ranks 50th in the nation in hours of care nursing home residents receive from workers each day. Advocates for nursing home residents say the Biden administration's plans to call for increased staffing could help residents.

Nearly 900 long-term care facilities in Missouri contracted with Gamma, including 459 of the state’s 504 skilled nursing facilities and more than 400 assisted living and residential care facilities.

Federal regulators pulled the lab certifications of Gamma Healthcare of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, which provides diagnostic testing for hundreds of long-term care facilities in Missouri.

The COVID-19 help is supposed to be paid back to Washington, and small hospital administrators worry the terms will implode their already-fragile budgets.

Quality care advocates and some nursing home operators agree the new federal data is confusing and misleading.

Missouri health regulators have told a Boonville, Missouri, hospital that specializes in bariatric surgery and is affiliated with a similar privately…