Many new moms in Texas don’t know they qualify for a year of Medicaid, doctors say

Patients wait to be seen at People's Community Clinic in Austin, which provides women's health services to low-income women on July 15, 2020. (Credit: Callie Richmond for The Texas Tribune)

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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 babies and then start the mad dash to squeeze in a follow-up visit before they lost insurance just eight weeks after giving birth.