Funding cuts and regulatory changes could radically reduce Medicaid, the largest program providing medical and health-related services to low-income people, as well as Medicare, federal health insurance for people 65 or older, and some under 65 with certain disabilities or conditions.
Seven employees were fired after accessing tens of thousands of Medicaid and food stamp accounts and stealing at least $270,000.
Health care bills relating to cannabis, hospital transparency and Medicaid are on the docket for the 89th Texas Legislature.
The first Trump administration also sought to block grant funding to states. House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, told KFF Health News that Medicaid and other federal entitlement programs need major changes to help cut the federal debt.
After missing a Jan. 1 deadline, lawmakers still have time to approve administrative costs before applying for $400 million in federal summer meal assistance.
On Friday the Texas Health and Human Services Commission ... of 61,104 Texans who receive public assistance including Medicaid and food stamps. "HHSC took immediate steps to mitigate the breach ...
The burden of Republican-proposed Medicaid cuts could disproportionately fall on rural Arizonans who rely on the program.
Texas dominated the list of counties with the highest share of their under-65 population lacking health insurance.
House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, told KFF Health News that Medicaid and other federal entitlement programs need major changes to help cut the federal debt. "Without them ...
Texas lawmakers are looking to spend billions of dollars over the next two years to create a school voucher-like program, cut property taxes, raise teacher pay, shore up water infrastructure and continue the state’s border crackdown,
Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to reject this program for 2024 left kids without the help they need, even as the state enjoys historic budget surpluses.
While the federal government and the states jointly fund Medicaid, each state runs its own program, subject to federal requirements. The federal government covers between 50 percent and 77 percent of the cost of insuring people with Medicaid, depending on the state.