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Logo. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) is an agency within the Texas Health and Human Services System. It was established by House Bill 2292 in 2003 during the 78th Legislature, [1] which consolidated twelve different healthcare agencies into five entities under the oversight of HHSC. [2]
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US$25.9 billion (2023) Number of employees. c. 67,700 (2023) Website. www.centene.com. Footnotes / references. [1] Centene Corporation is a publicly traded managed care company based in St. Louis, Missouri, which is an intermediary for government-sponsored and privately insured healthcare programs. Centene ranked No. 25 on the 2023 Fortune 500.
Medicaid is the largest source of funding for medical and health-related services for people with low income in the United States, providing free health insurance to 85 million low-income and disabled people as of 2022; [3] in 2019, the program paid for half of all U.S. births. [4]
Additionally, an analysis of changes in mortality post Medicaid expansion suggests that Medicaid saves lives at a relatively more cost effective rate of a societal cost of $327,000 to $867,000 (equivalent to $415,143 to $1.1 million in 2023 [31]) per life saved compared to other public policies which cost an average of $7.6 million (equivalent ...
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A National Provider Identifier (NPI) is a unique 10-digit identification number issued to health care providers in the United States by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The NPI has replaced the Unique Physician Identification Number (UPIN) as the required identifier for Medicare services, and is used by other payers ...
On top of individual problems with healthcare in Texas there is a shortage of healthcare providers as a whole in the state. Of the 254 counties in Texas, 230 counties are experiencing a whole-county shortage of primary care physicians, 20 counties are experiencing a partial area-specific shortage of PCPs, and only 4 counties are experiencing no ...