JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri lawmakers have scrapped a proposal to conduct random drug tests on Medicaid recipients for fear it could have cost more than $4 billion, the full amount of Medicaid money the state gets from the federal government.
Medicaid drug tests eliminated
Missouri legislators give up on the proposal to keep from losing federal funding.
Thursday, May 17, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 6:54 p.m. CDT, Monday, July 21, 2008
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