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In February, Bailee, who has had Medicaid since Smith was pregnant with her, became one of the 2.1 million people who lost Medicaid coverage in the state of Texas during the unwinding period ...
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 majority of Medicaid recipients are low-income children and pregnant or postpartum people. ... In Texas, almost all Medicaid insurance is provided by private companies hired by the state ...
Currently, Cook Children’s Health Plan has two state contracts. One is to provide Medicaid health insurance to all of the kids and pregnant people enrolled in the STAR and CHIP programs.
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 ...
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.
Many states contract with private companies to administer some portions of their CHIP benefits. Some states have received authority to use CHIP funds to cover certain adults, including pregnant women and parents of children receiving benefits from both CHIP and Medicaid. CHIP covered 7.6 million children during federal fiscal year 2010, and ...
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 ...