State Information: Missouri
This state-specific page on Missouri provides new materials published by Families USA, key health contacts, state government links, news and views from the state, and other resources that might be helpful to Missouri advocates. Click on the links below to view the information you are interested in.
Key Health Contacts
Legal Services of Eastern MO
4232 Forest Park Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63108
Phone: 314-534-4200
Toll Free: 800-444-0514
Fax: 314-534-1425
Website: http://www.lsem.org/
Missouri Association of Social Welfare
606 East Capitol Avenue
Jefferson City, MO 65101
Phone: 573-634-2901
Fax: 573-635-1648
Email: CitizenVoice@masw.org
Website: http://www.masw.org/
Missouri Budget Project
4130 Lindell Blvd
St. Louis, MO 63108
Website: http://www.mobudget.org/home.html
Missouri Health Advocacy Alliance
606 East Capitol Ave.
Jefferson City, MO 65101
Missouri Jobs with Justice
2725 Clifton Ave
St. Louis, MO 63139
Website: http://www.stl-jwj.org/
Missouri Primary Care Association (MPCA)
3325 Emerald Lane
Jefferson City, MO 65109
Phone: 573-636-4222
Fax: 573-636-4585
Email: info@mo-pca.org
Website: www.mo-pca.org/
The Missouri Primary Care Association (MPCA) is a nonprofit corporation founded in November 1984 as an alliance of Community and Migrant Health Centers. It functions as an advocacy voice for the medically indigent, and explores and implements activities aimed at providing and promoting high quality, accessible, and personalized health care services to urban and rural populations (regardless of ability to pay) in the state of Missouri. Another objective of the Association is to guarantee the voice of the community in local health care delivery. As such, the Association actively involves consumers and providers of primary care services with governmental agencies that plan for delivery of primary health care.
Missouri Progressive Vote Coalition
5585 Pershing Avenue, Suite 150
St. Louis, MO 63112
Phone: 314-531-2288
Fax: 314-361-8704
Email: moprovote@mindspring.com
Website: http://www.missouriprovote.org/Home.asp
MO Health Care for All
4144 Lindell
St. Louis, MO 63108
Website: http://ga6.org/faithbeyondwalls/mohcfa.html
MO Progressive Vote Coalition
5585 Pershing Avenue #150
Saint Louis, MO 63112
Website: http://www.missouriprovote.org/Home.asp
NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) of Missouri
1001 Southwest Boulevard, Suite E
Jefferson City, MO 65109
Phone: 800-374-2138
Fax: 573-761-5636
Email: keele@aol.com
Website: http://mo.nami.org/
NAMI of Missouri is a nonprofit, volunteer organization dedicated to making life better for individuals and families whose lives have been touched by mental illness. They provide education courses for consumers, family members, parents, and mental health professionals. They also provide informational packets on various psychiatric disorders, medications, coping skills, and therapies. The group publishes a quarterly newsletter and holds an annual statewide conference. In addition, NAMI of Missouri has 16 chapters throughout the state that provide assistance through support groups and contacts, advocacy, and other educational programs and materials.
Paraquad
5240 Oakland Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63132
Partnership for Children
4510 Belleview, Suite 200
Kansas City, MO 64111
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State Government Links
State of Missouri Website
State Department of Insurance Website
The Missouri Department of Social Services website has information on the state's health care programs.
Visit the Medicaid page of the state's website for more information on Medicaid.
The Managed Care Plus (MC+) Program is designed to serve certain Medicaid recipients that meet specified eligibility criteria. The Program's goal is to improve the accessibility and quality of health care services for Missouri's Medicaid and state-aid-eligible populations.
The Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan provides health coverage for state employees and for state residents whose employers have elected to join the plan.
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Other Resources
Holding Health Homes Accountable for High-Quality Care: Payment and Quality Measures describes options for paying Health Home providers and measuring quality. It explains how advocates can identify and promote the best policies for consumers, and it includes examples from the following states: IA, MO, NC, NY, OH, OR, and RI. (February 2013) [Families USA]
Designing Consumer-Friendly Health Homes discusses six key decisions that states need to make when they set up Health Homes. It also explains the challenges that state advocates should address to ensure that Health Homes improve care for Medicaid beneficiaries. (January 2013) [Families USA]
Health Homes in Medicaid: Challenges and Opportunities for Advocates defines Health Homes and discusses their potential to improve care for vulnerable patients, the role that advocates can play, and challenges that states and advocates will face. It includes a chart that summarizes key details of Health Homes in IA, MO, NC, NY, OH, OR, and RI. (November 2012) [Families USA]
Medicaid Health Homes for Beneficiaries with Chronic Conditions explains the basics of health homes (which allow states to manage and coordinate care for high-cost beneficiaries), such as who is eligible, what services are provided, which providers can qualify as health homes, and how payment works. It also examines the progress of the first four states to get approval for their health home plans: Missouri, New York, Oregon, and Rhode Island. (August 2012) [Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured]
Worry No More: Americans with Pre-Existing Conditions Are Protected by the Health Care Law provides estimates of how many people will be protected from discrimination based on their health status thanks to the health care law. For the first time, the state reports include county-level data, and they include state-level data that are broken down by age, income, and racial or ethnic group. (July-August 2012) [Families USA]
Being a Woman Just Got a Little Easier: How the Affordable Care Act Benefits Women outlines what women stand to gain under the Affordable Care Act. (July 2012) [Families USA]
Dying for Coverage: The Deadly Consequences of Being Uninsured estimates the number of Americans who are dying prematurely due to lack of health coverage. It includes state-level data that are broken down by week, month, and year that were generated using the methodology originally developed by the Institute of Medicine. (June 2012) [Families USA]
Decoding Your Health Insurance: The New Summary of Benefits and Coverage provides national and state-level data on the nearly 173.5 million people with private insurance who will be helped by these plain-language summaries that are required by the health care law. (May 2012) [Families USA]
Good Business Sense: The Small Business Health Care Tax Credit in the Affordable Care Act provides national and state-level estimates of the number of small businesses that will be eligible for this tax credit and of how much the credits will be worth. It also includes data on how many workers could benefit as a result, broken down according to racial and ethnic group. (May 2012) [Families USA and Small Business Majority]
Republican Presidential Primaries: Health Care and the 2012 Missouri Primary looks at Republicans' plans for health care and how they would harm the health and health care of all Missourians, whether old, young, or working-age. (January 2012) [Families USA]
The Bottom Line: How the Affordable Care Act Helps America's Families shows the net financial effects of the Affordable Care Act on family budgets. We found that lower- and middle-income families, both uninsured and insured, will be financial winners. | State Reports (October 2011) [Families USA]
Medicaid's Impact in the States: Helping People with Serious Health Care Needs examines how vital Medicaid is for residents with cancer, diabetes, chronic lung disease, or heart disease or stroke. For these people, Medicaid can be the difference between life and death, and program cuts would put them at risk. Released in partnership with three other groups. (September 2011) [Families USA]
Jobs at Risk: Federal Medicaid Cuts Would Harm State Economies provides state-level data that show the devastating impact the House Republican budget proposal would have. The proposal's substantial Medicaid cuts would harm program enrollees and their families and lead to a loss of business activity and jobs in all states. | Calculator (June 2011) [Families USA]
Cutting Medicaid in the States: Harming Seniors and People with Disabilities Who Need Long-Term Care provides state-specific numbers on how many people would be affected by cuts to Medicaid long-term care spending, as well as how Medicaid helps families, state workers, and businesses. (May 2011) [Families USA]
House Republicans Propose to Slash Funding for Medicaid, Medicare, and Other Health Coverage Programs takes a closer look at how the recent budget proposal would harm seniors, children, and state economies, including state-specific numbers. (April 2011) [Families USA]
States Are Benefitting from Provisions of the Affordable Care Act lists the number of people in each state who are already benefiting from each of five provisions. The provisions include measures that are helping small businesses provide coverage to their workers, helping seniors get free preventive care, and protecting children with pre-existing conditions. | Table (March 2011) [Families USA]
Protecting Seniors and People with Disabilities: Why It Is Important to Preserve the Maintenance of Effort Requirement in the Affordable Care Act discusses how stripping the maintenance of effort requirement from the ACA will have negative consequences for the many people who depend on Medicaid by allowing states to change eligibility requirements. (February 2011) [Families USA]
Worry Less Spend Less: Out-of-Pocket Spending Caps Protect America's Families examines how the Affordable Care Act will protect insured people from high medical costs through new caps on out-of-pocket spending. It provides state-level estimates of how many residents will have spending that exceeds these caps and by how much, and it looks at how many of those residents work for small businesses. (February 2011) [Families USA]
How Health Reform Helps Communities of Color is a series of state-based fact sheets that discuss how provisions in the Affordable Care Act--both those for the general public and those specifically designed to eliminate health disparities--help communities of color in each state. (September-October 2010) [Families USA]
Implementing the Medicaid Provisions of the Affordable Care Act in Missouri: Early Observations, Challenges, and Opportunities addresses some of the key implementation issues facing Missouri policy makers and advocates and outlines the steps that the state should take in preparation for the implementation process. (September 2010) [Legal Services of Eastern Missouri]
Lower Taxes, Lower Premiums: The New Health Insurance Tax Credit examines how this tax credit will help both insured and uninsured Americans. It provides data on the number of people eligible, the total dollars available, and on how it will help working families in particular. (September 2010) [Families USA]
A Helping Hand for Missouri's Small Businesses: Health Insurance Tax Credits discusses how the health reform law's small business tax credit works, how many state businesses will be helped by it, and other health reform measures that will help small businesses and their workers. (July 2010) [Families USA]
Health Reform: New Opportunities for States to Invest in Home- and Community-Based Services is a series of state-specific fact sheets that explore the new options for states to expand home- and community-based services through the health reform law and the reasons why expanding this type of services is a good idea. (Summer 2010) [Families USA]
Health Reform: Help for Missourians with Pre-Existing Conditions discusses how, under health reform, no one will be denied coverage, charged a higher premium, or sold a policy that excludes coverage of essential benefits because of pre-existing conditions. The report presents the number of state residents with diagnosed pre-existing conditions who, absent reform, would be at risk of being denied coverage in the individual insurance market. It breaks down this number by age, income, and race. | National Report (May 2010) [Families USA]
How Health Reform Helps the People of Missouri looks at the many benefits that health reform will bring to the state, including cracking down on insurance company abuses, ending runaway premiums, and providing financial security. (May 2010) [Families USA]
Health Coverage in Missouri: How Will Health Reform Help? discusses the major gaps in Missouri's health coverage system and how health reform will address these gaps and help Missourian, including the insured, the uninsured, people in Medicare, and small businesses. (March 2010) [Families USA]
Lives on the Line: The Deadly Consequences of Delaying Health Reform examines what would happen if Congress fails to pass health reform. Specifically, it provides national and state-level estimates of the number of deaths that would occur due to lack of health coverage if reform doesn't pass. It also quantifies how many Americans died due to lack of health coverage since the last effort to pass reform in 1994. (March 2010) [Families USA]
Guide to Finding Health Coverage: Missouri Millions of Americans have no health insurance, and finding health insurance can be difficult. If you are looking for coverage, this guide can help point the way. Whether you have recently lost your job, are an early retiree, or have a serious medical condition, this guide includes numerous resources that may help you find the coverage you need. (Updated 2009) [Families USA]
Healthcare Reform Will Help Missouri's Small Businesses examines how the state's small businesses struggle with high health insurance premiums and how health reform will address this problem, making health insurance more affordable for businesses and individuals. (September 2009) [Small Business Majority]
The Uninsured: A Closer Look–Missourians without Health Insurance examines how many state residents were uninsured during 2007-2008. The report also takes a closer look at the number of uninsured, who they are, and how long they were uninsured. It mirrors the data in our national report, Americans at Risk: One in Three Uninsured. (April 2009) [Families USA]
Premiums versus Paychecks: A Growing Burden for Missouri's Workers. The impact of changes in employer-based health insurance premiums and earnings in Missouri. (September 2008) [Families USA]
Bad Medicine: The President's Medicaid Regulations Will Weaken Missouri's Economy States are facing a recession and reduced revenues. In 2007, the Bush Administration issued seven new regulations that together will strip an estimated $50 billion in federal funds from states over the next five years. These state-specific reports quantify the harm that these regulations will cause to state economies in terms of lost federal dollars, business activity, jobs, and wages. (April 2008) [Families USA]
Dying for Coverage in Missouri or the more than 47 million Americans who are uninsured, lack of health insurance can have dire consequences: medical debt, missed care, and even premature death. This first-ever state-specific report examines the number of deaths due to lack of health insurance. (March 2008) [Families USA]
Insure Missouri: Too Little, Too Late examines Governor Blunt's proposal to provide health coverage to uninsured Missourians. It finds that the plan's eligibility criteria leave out many low-income uninsured adults, the coverage offered is missing key benefits, the cost-sharing is too high, and the plan is built on shaky financing mechanisms. (January 2008) [Families USA]
Too Great a Burden: Missouri's Families at Risk finds that more and more Missouri families are spending a substantial share of their incomes on health care costs, and most of these families have insurance. Faced with high health care costs and tight budgets, families are turning to credit cards to finance their care, and many are falling into medical debt. (November 2007) [Families USA]
Insure Missouri: Early Observations provides an analysis of the governor's three-phase program, Insure Missouri, which would expand health coverage to uninsured, low-income Missourians. (October 2007) [Legal Services of Eastern Missouri]
When an Apple A Day Isn't Enough: Students in Missouri Speak Out about Health Care contains the winning essays from the "When an Apple a Day Isn't Enough" national essay contest as well as basic information about why health insurance matters for children. [Families USA]
Guide to Finding Health Insurance Coverage: Millions of Americans have no health insurance, and finding health insurance can be difficult. If you are looking for coverage, this guide can help point the way. Whether you have recently lost your job, are an early retiree, or have a serious medical condition, this guide includes numerous resources that may help you find the coverage you need. (Updated March 2007) [Families USA]
Using Blunt Force on Missouri's Most Vulnerable Population analyzes the damage that could be done by SB 577, a proposal to replace the state's Medicaid program. (March 2007) [Families USA]
No Shelter from the Storm: Missouri's Uninsured Children. This fact sheet takes a closer look at uninsured children in Missouri—who they are and what kinds of services they miss out on as a result of being uninsured. Written by Families USA for the Campaign for Children's Health Care. (September 2006) [Families USA]
NACHRI, in collaboration with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), has released 2005 updates of their state-specific Medicaid fact sheets. These fact sheets detail the importance of the Medicaid program to the health care of children in every state, as well as the critical role children's hospitals and pediatricians play in serving all children. Click here for a map that will take you to information specific to your state. (July 2005) [National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI)]
Paying a Premium: The Added Cost of Care for the Uninsured in Missouri: A fact sheet with state-level data showing the dollar impact on private health insurance premiums of care provided to the uninsured. (June 2005) [Families USA]
Showdown in the Show-Me State: Governor Blunt vs. Medicaid: This report looks at Missouri's proposed severe Medicaid cuts, which would drive the state from the middle of the road to the bottom of the pack in terms of coverage for parents. (March 2005) [Families USA]
Medicaid Cuts Are Bad Medicine: This fact sheet describes how Medicaid helps your state's economy, supports the state's health care infrastructure, provides essential health care to the most vulnerable residents, and reduces the number of uninsured. (January 2005) [Families USA]
The Uninsured: A Closer Look: A fact sheet with state-level data from One in Three: Non-Elderly Americans without Health Insurance, 2002-2003. (June 2004) [Families USA]
Good Medicine for State Economies, 2004 Update: Medicaid provides essential health care services for an estimated 51 million people of all ages and economic classes. Medicaid also plays a unique role in stimulating state economies. This report provides national and state-level data on the effects of Medicaid spending on state business activity, employment, and employee earnings. These updated numbers can be used to predict the economic impact of potential state Medicaid spending increases or cuts in fiscal year 2005.| Medicaid Calculator with updated figures (May 2004) [Families USA]
Who's Uninsured in Missouri and Why? is a four-page fact sheet providing information on the uninsured population in the state -- their numbers and characteristics and some of the reasons they are uninsured. (November 2003) [Families USA]
Families USA has prepared state fact sheets that spell out the different amounts of help the House and Senate Medicare prescription drug bills would provide to low-income beneficiaries. Click here for this state's fact sheet. (July 2003) [Families USA]
Medicaid and State Budgets: An Overview of Five States' Experiences in 2001 presents a review of the role of Medicaid in the budgets of five states: Idaho, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina, and Texas. In it, state-level researchers and policy experts from those states describe their state's Medicaid programs and overall fiscal situations, explain recent trends in Medicaid spending, and identify their state's responses to growing fiscal pressure in their Medicaid budgets. (March 2002) [Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured]
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