A major shift in Texas Medicaid could end up removing 2 million people from the government-provided health care insurance. The state plans to remove some of its largest nonprofit children's...
Texas HHSC decided not to award Medicaid contract to Cook Children’s Health Plan. Thousands of Fort Worth kids would have to find a new insurance plan.
Tom and Mary Jo York are a health-conscious couple, who faithfully go in for annual physicals and periodic colorectal cancer screening tests. Mary Jo, whose mother and aunts had breast cancer, also gets regular mammography tests. The Yorks, who live in New Berlin, Wis., are enrolled in Chorus Community Health Plans, which, like most of the nation's health plans, is required by the Affordable Care Act to pay for those preventive services, and more than 100 others, without charging deductibles or copays. ...
6-Minute Listen ; In Texas, about 1 in 4 people is uninsured. By federal law, the county hospital's emergency room cannot turn sick patients away, no matter their ability to pay, so Parkland opens its arms. Last year it cost Parkland Hospital three quarters of a billion dollars to provide what is called "uncompensated care" — mostly treating patients without health insurance. Parkland is hardly some 90-pound weakling, but $765 million of red ink will strain any hospital. Dallas County Judge Cl...
The Texas health insurance exchange will be federally run by HHS after Rick Perry decided not to run a state-based Marketplace in Texas.
The situation is particularly dire in Texas, where state officials have restricted access to publicly funded health insurance programs for the poor and have led the charge to toss the...
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without health insurance rose for the second year in a row... In 2018, 17.7% of Texas residents — about 5 million people... federal government doesn't keep its promise to pay for the...
Texas Law ; Provides for a Texas Health Insurance Risk Pool to sell major medical policies with prescription benefits to consumers with uninsurable medical conditions. This can be secondary coverage for persons with under-age-65 Medicare. Provides for a Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) offering low cost health care for children of Texas families whose income is 200% of poverty level or less. Establishes the Children with Special Health Care needs program. Eligible children with chronic...
A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday ruled against a mandate... offer insurance plans that cover HIV-prevention pills, known... government can support the refusal of coverage for health...