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“Now that we have this coverage, what do we do to make sure women can get it?,” one health advocate said.
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Texas state Sen. Nathan Johnson, D-Dallas, revived his proposal for a Medicaid expansion program in case state or federal Republican leaders change their minds.
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More than five dozen groups — including United Way of Metropolitan Dallas and the Tarrant Area Food Bank — wrote in support of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's request for $300 million to improve processing times for Medicaid and SNAP applications.
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Texas officials acknowledged some errors after they stripped Medicaid coverage from more than 2 million people, most of them children. A ProPublica and Texas Tribune review of records shows that these mistakes and others were preventable.
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New research underlines the importance of doula care in improving maternal mortality and morbidity for pregnant Medicaid patients.
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Medicaid unwinding exposed a 'crisis' in the system as more than a million Texans lost coverage this year.
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The entire Texas Democratic delegation in the U.S. House asked the Biden administration to stop what they called a catastrophic loss of Medicaid coverage in the state.
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Advocates are calling for a halt to removals until the state can account for why more than 80% of the people who lost Medicaid coverage were eliminated for 'procedural' reasons, like not responding to messages from the state.
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With the return of pre-pandemic Medicaid rules, nonprofits and community organizations are working to help low-income and vulnerable Texans navigate the renewal process and maintain health coverage.
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A pandemic-era rule gave people consistent access to health care — but that rule is about to expire.