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The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is standing by its decision not to award a large Medicaid contract to Cook Children’s Health Plan, a major provider of Medicaid health insurance to ...
The state of Texas plans to drop Driscoll Health Plan from two health insurance programs for low-income children and pregnant women, threatening the future of the nonprofit health plan that ...
Bailee is one of 10,812 Texas children who lost Medicaid coverage and then were enrolled in the state's Children's Health Insurance Program, which is similar to Medicaid but with a higher ...
In 2007, the Health and Human Services Commission of Texas established the Women's Health Program (WHP), a Medicaid waiver program that received 90% of its funding from the federal level. [9] [10] The Program provided family planning services for women from the ages of 18–44 whose incomes were 185% below the federal poverty level. [9]
In the United States, Medicaid is a government program that provides health insurance for adults and children with limited income and resources. The program is partially funded and primarily managed by state governments, which also have wide latitude in determining eligibility and benefits, but the federal government sets baseline standards for state Medicaid programs and provides a ...
Logo of the Department of Health and Human Services. The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) – formerly known as the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) – is a program administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides matching funds to states for health insurance to families with children. [1]
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission, which operates these programs — called STAR and CHIP — shocked many pediatric providers in Tarrant County in March when it decided not to award ...
Children account for approximately half of Medicaid beneficiaries but only roughly 20-25 percent of the costs of the program overall. [4] With Medicaid and EPSDT, however, poor children's access to health care is similar to that of non-poor, privately insured children and child Medicaid beneficiaries use care in approximately the same pattern ...