Missouri’s Medicaid program is heading into its hardest budget years in at least a decade. A federal law passed by Congress last year, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, threatens more than $1 billion in penalties unless the state lowers its error rate below 3% starting in October 2029. It also imposes new mandates on […]
(The Center Square) – A Biden-era health care subsidy under Medicare Part D will no longer be available in 2027, the Trump administration announced, as the costs of the prescription drug coverage plan continue to rise rapidly.
Senior Cullen Klepzig is the first St. Pius X High School student to gain acceptance into a program intended to help produce doctors that thos…
The Rock Township Ambulance District is the first emergency medical service provider to offer a program to expand its services into homes befo…
A longtime Jefferson County health care provider recently opened Family Psychiatric and Addiction Care Clinic in Hillsboro with a goal of prov…
Students from Valley Middle School in House Springs participated in its annual “Merry for Charity” event on Dec. 19, a morning dedicated to cr…
The new respiratory season is officially underway, and the Jefferson County Health Department will hold a drive-thru flu vaccine clinic on Friday.
The Jefferson County Health Department is shifting the direction of its dental program to focus on children. Effective Friday, June 27, the ad…
Deborah Ann Portell, 70, of Crystal City died Feb. 26, 2025, at Mercy Hospital Jefferson in Crystal City. Mrs. Portell worked as a nurse’s aid…
A $5.2 million renovation project should produce oohs and aahs from people, and that is exactly what happened at the Oct. 10 ribbon-cutting ce…