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Kate Royals is a Jackson native and returned to Mississippi Today as the lead education reporter after serving in the same capacity from 2016 to 2018. Prior to that, she was a reporter for the Clarion-Ledger covering education and state government. She won awards for her investigative work, including stories about the state’s campaign finance laws and prison system. She was a news producer at MassLive in Springfield, Mass., after graduating from Louisiana State University’s Manship School of Mass Communications with a master’s degree in communications.

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This Mississippian needs a new liver. The state’s only transplant hospital can’t give it to him.

by Kate Royals July 25, 2022December 14, 2022
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In ‘The Movement Made Us,’ father and son reflect on the past, both remembered and forgotten

by Kate Royals July 13, 2022July 13, 2022
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In need of immediate care, liver transplant candidate drops Blue Cross for Marketplace insurance

by Kate Royals July 8, 2022August 3, 2022
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For very sick Mississippi children, Blue Cross-UMMC dispute reaches breaking point

by Kate Royals June 30, 2022August 3, 2022
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Fitch certifies Mississippi’s trigger law banning abortion in nearly all cases

by Kate Royals and Will Stribling June 27, 2022June 27, 2022
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Blue Cross, UMMC resolution moving at a ‘snail’s pace,’ insurance commissioner says

by Kate Royals June 7, 2022August 3, 2022
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30,000 state employees, teachers poised to lose name-brand prescription coverage under state plan

by Kate Royals May 24, 2022May 24, 2022
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Insurance commissioner asks UMMC and Blue Cross to help man featured in Mississippi Today stories

by Kate Royals May 16, 2022August 3, 2022
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‘I’m scared I’m going to freaking die’: As UMMC and Blue Cross dispute continues, Mississippi man can’t get answers to life-and-death questions

by Kate Royals May 13, 2022August 3, 2022
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Blue Cross is sitting on a huge pile of money. In some states, consumers would get it back.

by Isabelle Taft and Kate Royals April 25, 2022December 14, 2022
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Need an organ transplant in Mississippi? You may be out of luck thanks to an insurance dispute.

by Kate Royals April 13, 2022August 3, 2022
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How much do Blue Cross, UMMC leaders make? In Mississippi, that’s a secret.

by Isabelle Taft and Kate Royals April 8, 2022August 3, 2022
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Mississippi’s largest hospital and insurer ‘not optimistic’ about reaching an agreement, leaving families in impossible positions

by Kate Royals March 31, 2022August 3, 2022
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Doctors asked Speaker Philip Gunn to extend health coverage for moms and babies. Then he blocked it

by Kate Royals March 15, 2022April 27, 2022
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‘It makes it hard to work’: The real cost of not expanding Medicaid in Mississippi

by Kate Royals March 9, 2022April 27, 2022

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