Laredo Morning Times5d
Local adult daycare owner accused of $168K in Medicaid fraud
The owner of Buenos Dias Adult Daycare billed the Texas Medicaid Program more than $168,000 for services that were not ...
The Associated Press on MSN11d
Nearly 900 Texas children are waitlisted for a mental health program billed as an alternative to foster care
Despite a long waitlist, the number of children served in the YES Waiver program has declined because of provider shortages.
Truthout4d
House GOP Advances Budget With Over $1T in Cuts to Medicaid and Food Stamps
House Republicans blocked amendments that would’ve protected Medicaid and federal nutrition benefits from the deep cuts.
Texas Removes 1.7M People from Health-Care Plan
Millions have lost coverage as a result of the national disenrollment process, which began following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yahoo8d
'We are struggling': Medicaid home caregivers want Texas lawmakers to increase wages
State Rep. Suleman Lalani, D-Sugar Land, who is also a physician, has introduced a bill in the Legislature that would set a minimum wage of $15 per hour for personal attendants under Medicaid.
Opinion
To pay for tax cuts, the GOP’s budget plan goes full Scrooge
Republican politicians plan to take food and health care away from the poor to subsidize tax cuts for the rich. That might sound like a stale, Scroogey stereotype. But it’s not an exaggeration: It’s ...
Baytown Sun1d
New moms in Texas don’t know they qualify for Medicaid
Almost all of the pregnant women Dr. Joshua Splinter sees at his rural East Texas practice are on Medicaid. For years, he would treat these patients during pregnancy, deliver their ...
As States Mull Medicaid Work Requirements, Two Seek to Scale Back
Proposals from Georgia and Arkansas reveal the disconnect between rhetoric on Medicaid requirements and reality, advocates ...