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title: "Missouri Medicaid Long-Term Care | Funding LTC Marketplace"
url: https://fundingltcmarketplace.com/states/missouri/medicaid-long-term-care/
description: "How MO HealthNet, Vendor Care, and the Family Support Division fit together for Missouri long-term-care coverage."
last_updated: 2026-10-20
author: George A. Mellendorf, CLTC, LTCP (Central States Insurance Services, Inc.)
publisher: Funding LTC Marketplace
note: Educational content; not legal, tax or financial advice. Markdown copy of the HTML page at the URL above.
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Missouri · Medicaid Program

# Missouri Medicaid Long-Term Care

Last updated 2026-10-20

Missouri's Medicaid program goes by the name MO HealthNet. For the aged, blind, and disabled population, it's the Department of Social Services' Family Support Division that determines eligibility, while the state's HCBS manual separately points to the MO HealthNet Division and the Department of Health and Senior Services as the agencies partnering on long-term-care services.

When someone needs a Medicaid-certified nursing facility, Missouri calls that payment arrangement Vendor Care. The state's eligibility chart describes it as covering care in a nursing facility, an institution for people with intellectual disabilities, or certain mental or psychiatric hospitals — with MO HealthNet covering the services and paying the facility for costs beyond what the participant is responsible for.

## Sources and official resources

- [Missouri DSS: Nursing Home](https://dss.mo.gov/mhd/nursing-home)
- [CMS: 2026 SSI and Spousal Impoverishment Standards](https://www.medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/cib04272026.pdf)

Rules and figures change. Confirm current details with the agency before you act.

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