Expanded Medicaid in Missouri has opened the door for some 275,000 uninsured residents to get health coverage.

Enrollments are under way and if you are wondering if you and your family can get Medicaid to help with healthcare costs, find out by going to mydss.mo.gov and apply for services from MoHealthNet.

The expansion is available to residents ages 19-to-64 whose household incomes are 138% of the federal poverty guideline or less, or roughly $17,774 a year for a single person, or $36,570 for a family of four.

Missouri announced the opening of enrollment in mid-August after a Cole County Circuit Court judge ruled that the state must provide the expanded Medicaid coverage that was enacted in a statewide referendum in August 2020 that wrote Medicaid expansion into the state’s constitution.

The voter-enacted expansion was initially stopped when the Missouri Legislature did not appropriate the $1.9 billion to fund for the program and Gov. Mike Parson did not implement it. But after the court ruling, Parson announced the enrollments would begin.

The state will begin processing applications Oct. 1, but people in need of health care should apply now.

Parson warned that capacity and funding limitations may create a delay of two months in processing enrollments.