The Texas Health and Human Services Commission plans to submit a 1115 waiver extension application to prolong Medicare and Medicaid services for 10 years, allowing it to run through 2030.

The great majority of Medicaid plans in both states report screening for social needs (79 percent of Texas plans and 85 percent of California plans). Self-expressed motivations are very similar.

The federal government on Monday granted Texas a waiver that could mean billions more in Medicaid dollars to hospitals over the next few years in return for having them work together to provide ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services July 10 announced it will provide resources and flexibilities to health care ...

Despite state officials’ claims to the contrary, a waiver request for Texas’ low-income women’s health program wouldn’t expand access, advocates say.

Texas has won a preliminary injunction barring President Joe Biden's administration from rescinding the previous administration's approval of changes to the state's Medicaid program, a move the ...

Filed by the Texas attorney general, a new lawsuit seeks to prevent the Biden administration from revoking the Trump-era approval of a Medicaid waiver extension that could cost the state billions ...

Debate over the waiver was key to the federal government’s push for Texas to expand Medicaid for more working poor.

Since Texas has declined to expand Medicaid for low-income Texans, hospitals here contend the 1115 waiver has become essential to maintaining the state’s safety net.

AUSTIN – Gov. Greg Abbott announced the HHSC Healthy Texas Women federal Medicaid demonstration waiver is renewed through June 30, 2030, following approval by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

In Texas, Medicaid covers a third of all children, half of all pregnant women, the elderly in long-term care, and the ...

That's because in 2016, Texas will have to ask the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to renew a five-year waiver to pump $29 billion into state health care coffers.