A pilot project allowing rural health clinics to offer dental services through cooperative agreements with community dentists has now been put on hold due to recent budget restrictions. MARHC successfully advocated for $1.25 million in the fiscal year 2016 budget for this pilot project, which was designed to expand access to oral healthcare services in underserved areas. After the budget’s passage, MARHC began working with the Missouri Dental Association to connect dentists a

The Task Force for Examining Statewide Medicaid Delivery Models held its first meeting on October 20. The Missouri legislature created this task force in the fiscal year 2016 budget as part of the language that expands managed care statewide for the patient populations currently covered by managed care in the I-70 corridor. The language in the budget is fairly broad, which has sparked debate over the most effective model of managed care and how it should be implemented. Legis