Medicaid: Texas, N.J. Move Toward Major ChangesProposed changes in Medicaid operations in Texas, New Jersey and Arizona are expected to trim the number of enrollees in those programs.Kaiser Health News
Another way of committing fraud is to impersonate a licensed provider. For example, in 2022, a Texas woman was accused of using her ex-husband’s provider number to submit fraudulent claims to Medicaid for counseling services that were never provided, receiving more than $600,000 in fraudulent ...
Texas is clawing back more than $607 million per year in federal funding for special education services, a move local school district officials say will likely worsen already strained budgets for students with disabilities. The School Health and Related Services (SHARS) program provides hundreds of...
Medicaid in the U.S.- children enrolled by state 2014 Published by Preeti Vankar, Dec 19, 2022 The statistic represents the total number of U.S. children enrolled in Medicaid in financial year 2014, by state. In that year, Minnesota had some 513 thousand children enrolled in the Medica...
The economic impact of addiction in Texas is undisputable. A 2023 report from The Perryman Group of Waco revealed that the use of fentanyl and other opioids alone cost Texas $50.1 billion in economic output and $84.6 billion in pain and suffering, l...
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Parents are eligible in all the nonexpansion states, but generally with very low income thresholds—the median income limit is 40% of the poverty level.2 In Texas, for example, which has the largest number of uninsured adults of any state, a parent with 2 children making more than $3733 ...
…This reform honor roll could continue: the 21 states that have moved more than 75% of all beneficiaries to managed care, Colorado’s pediatric “medical homes” program, Texas’s Medicaid waiver to devolve control to localities from the Austin bureaucracy. By contrast, the current system is...
A deal was finally hammered out between the Texas Pharmacy Association and Texas Department of Health offcials after a state court killed TDH's plan to slash dispensing fees to $3 (Drug Topics, April 7). Fees have been at $4.55 for the past five years.Medicaid Fee Rising in Texas...
In response, Texas formed a Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee in 2013 to try and remedy this problem. Since its inception, the Committee’s number one recommendation has been to provide a full year of medical insurance coverage following the end of a pregnancy. This way, mothers...