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 […]

In California, cost of undocumented healthcare is $3B over estimates

Gov. JB Pritzker proposed a $330-million budget cut last month to scale back an expansion of healthcare coverage for undocumented adult immigrants in Illinois, where a state audit found that services for certain age groups exceeded cost estimates by more than 280%. California Democrats are facing the same financial pressure to reduce coverage during a […]

What the Medicaid coverage gap means to Texans without health insurance

In 2012, Tanya Walker took the $200 her father loaned her to see a doctor. She was in the aftermath of a divorce and needed a prescription for antidepressants, she said. But her doctor in Texarkana found signs of hypertension and prediabetes — problems Walker knew she could not afford to have. Although her five […]