JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The director of the Mississippi Medicaid program has received approval to remain on the job.
The state Senate on Thursday confirmed Gov. Tate Reeves’s nomination of Drew Snyder to continuing leading the government health insurance program for the needy.
Snyder had held the job the past two years after being chosen by Reeves’s predecessor as governor, fellow Republican Phil Bryant.
Snyder is an attorney who previously worked as an assistant secretary of state.
About 690,000 of Mississippi’s nearly 3 million residents are covered by Medicaid, which is funded by federal and state money.
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