Texas Hospitals Could Face Cuts in Federal Funds

Texas hospital administrators aren’t thrilled by the Medicaid rate cuts they’re facing in the House’s proposed 2012-13 budget. But it’s the state’s plan to expand Medicaid managed care that’s keeping their CFOs up at night. Proposed cuts in the rates health care providers are paid for treating patients covered by Medicaid would cost Texas hospitals […]

Texas Parents Find Access to Medicaid Without Expansion

Texas’ Republican leadership made sure the state didn’t expand its Medicaid program to poor, uninsured adults — an optional provision of the Affordable Care Act. But low-income parents here are increasingly getting covered by the joint state-federal insurer anyway — through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. The state program, known as TANF, is funded by a federal block grant, and intended […]