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 […]

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 […]

Texas Medicaid expansion would help homeless, advocates say

*Correction appended When Susan Peake moved to Austin from Denver in 2018, she traded one kind of safety net for another. In Colorado, she’d received state-funded health insurance coverage, which she credits with saving her from financial ruin after she suffered a heart attack requiring double-bypass surgery. In Texas, though she did not qualify for […]