Texas may have rejected the federal expansion of Medicaid, but children continue to swell the program's numbers. Kaiser Health News reported Monday that that nearly 2.9 million Texas kids aged 6 to 18 were on Medicaid as of August 2014, up by about 254,000 since December. That number ...
The program, which serves about 2,200 children, is currently in desperate need of additional funding as providers leave the program due to low Medicaid reimbursement rates. The waitlist for this mental health service is nearly 900 families on a given day. Started in ...
This is over 25% of all the shootings by children in the entire United States. Texas is big, but this is a disproportionate number. The children who gain access to weapons are generally under 5 or between 14 and 17. The aftermath of these incidents is heartbreaking. San Antonio Infant Ki...
Texas hospitals who are enrolled in state health plans, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program will start asking patients' immigration status in November. Sep 16, 2024 Questions surround the handcuffing of a Texas 10-year-old with learning disabilities In an incident raising quest...
Texas is one of nearly 20 states yet to expand its Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and is home to the largest number of uninsured Americans of any state in the country. For many of the state's 5 million uninsured, this decision has left them without an option for...
He said the GOP will look to scale back Medicaid to its "traditional" populations of children, pregnant women and people with disabilities. "We need to rebalance the program that most people think is underperforming," he said. Most Americans, including large majorities of both Republicans and De...
Reports on a statement issued by several Catholic bishops in Texas that criticized the lack of proper health care for children in their state. Eligibility of children for Medicare; Concerns over the complexity of application process for Medicaid; Request for an action that will ensure health care ...
Speaking of Medicaid, here is another feature of the Affordable Care Act: the asset base limit got thrown out. In other words, Americans are no longer required to drain or lose everything they have ever earned or saved, over their lifetimes, to become destitute, to become eligible for Medic...
As of 2012, about 1.4 million uninsured people are living in Texas who do not qualify for either Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Plan (CHIP). Of this number, “49% (about 694,000) were unauthorized immigrants” and “51 percent (about 710,000) were US citizens.” ...
We calculated the percent of children who were “up-to-date” as of 1 May each year and corresponding 95% confidence intervals using exact methods. We additionally estimated the percent change in the number of doses administered for the month of May in 2019 and the month of May in 2020 ...