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More than 200,000 Texans are waiting for Medicaid approval as enrollment declines

Outdated technology and stricter requirements for Medicaid and SNAP food assistance have made it harder for Texas to give timely approval to applications, state officials and advocates say.

The Texas Tribune

Texas hospitals say they’re losing $27 million a day in Medicaid funding

Starting Sept. 1, the Trump administration is withholding about $9.8 billion in extra funding that helps hospitals cover the difference between Medicaid payments and the actual cost of services.

The Texas Tribune

Texas fights court ruling requiring that defendants get quicker access to psychiatric hospitals

A federal judge recently ruled that Texas must give defendants who are mentally incompetent to stand trial a state hospital bed within 21 days.

The Texas Tribune

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US: Texas governor orders crackdown on healthcare providers in 'birth tourism' probe

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered investigations into alleged birth tourism schemes. Six state agencies will probe healthcare providers facilitating foreign births for citizenship. Licensed professionals face penalties for assisting foreign nationals seeking US birthright citizenship. The governor stated Texas will not tolerate exploitation of immigration laws. This action follows…

The Economic Times

Texas officials are cracking down on “illegal birth tourism.” Here’s what that means.

Texas officials have sued a Houston area postpartum center as well as investigated Rio Grande Valley hospitals over allegations of soliciting foreigners to have babies on U.S. soil.

The Texas Tribune

Greg Abbott Says 'American Citizenship Is Not for Sale,' Orders Birth Tourism Investigation

Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) ordered an investigation into Mission Regional Medical Center over allegations that the hospital marketed "BIRTH PACKAGES IN SOUTH TEXAS" to foreign nationals as part of an effort to profit from birth tourism.

Benzinga

500,000 fewer Texans are on SNAP as participation slips nationally

Advocates say the federal government’s new work requirements and immigration crackdown has limited food stamp participation. The state says the recent decline is part of normal fluctuations in enrollment.

The Texas Tribune

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Texas is restricting the bathrooms trans people can use in government buildings. Here’s how the law works.

The “bathroom bill” doesn’t provide guidance for how government agencies, schools and universities should ensure people use facilities matching their sex assigned at birth.

The Texas Tribune

Texans started receiving full SNAP benefits Friday

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday ordered states to send full SNAP benefits “promptly.”

The Texas Tribune

Texans have started to receive partial SNAP payments

The federal government paused SNAP payments at the beginning of the month because of the shutdown.

The Texas Tribune

Texas SNAP benefit pause: Here’s how to receive and give help

Food assistance will be canceled in November amid the current federal government shutdown, halting benefits for 11% of Texas’ population.

The Texas Tribune

Texas will begin a summer lunch program in 2027, but only if feds don’t raise costs

The program would give low income families an extra $120 per child for summer lunches, but federal debate about food benefits could endanger the program.

The Texas Tribune

Long-running lawsuit against Texas’ foster care system appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court

Lawyers representing foster children asked the high court to reinstate a contempt order against the state, and the judge who issued it.

The Texas Tribune

Fired state employees breached the personal data of 33,529 more Texans

So far, nine Texas Health and Human Services Commission employees have been fired for improperly accessing Texans’ data.

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Two more state employees fired after accessing Texans’ private information

So far, nine HHSC employees have been fired for accessing without a “business” purpose the private information of Texans seeking public assistance that includes Medicaid and food stamps.

The Texas Tribune

Despite warnings, Texas rushed to remove millions from Medicaid. Eligible residents lost care.

Texas officials acknowledged some errors after they stripped Medicaid coverage from more than 2 million people, most of them children. A ProPublica and Texas Tribune review of records shows that these mistakes and others were preventable.

The Texas Tribune

Even as state mental health spending rises, private psychiatric hospitals struggle to stay open

Texas hasn’t increased Medicaid rates for inpatient health care at private hospitals in 16 years, falling behind other states.

The Texas Tribune

Cook Children’s sues Texas over potential Medicaid contract loss

For years, Cook’s Children, two other children’s hospitals have administered Medicaid health coverage plans. Canceling their contracts would put jobs and coverage at risk, they say.

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Federal agencies warn Texas not meeting SNAP, Medicaid requirements; state risks losing funding

Federal agencies said Texas is not meeting requirements to process Medicaid and SNAP applications, leading to delays and backlogs, potentially affecting funding

The Texas Tribune

State rejects health insurers' pleas to halt plan that will shake up coverage for 1.8 million Texans

Affected Texans who receive Medicaid coverage would be shifted to new insurers next year if the state health and human services agency sticks to its plan. It’s now up to the executive commissioner to make a final decision.

The Texas Tribune

Texas revamps Narcan distribution following delays, unpredictable supply

Texas has tapped more than $45 million in federal funds to get the overdose-reversing drug into the hands of law enforcement, members of the public. But the program has been plagued by supply issues, delays and lack of communication.

The Texas Tribune

Texas families could lose at-home nursing under stricter Medicaid rule

Some children who receive private duty nursing, a more continuous type of medical care in their homes, could lose their ability to live at home if an HHSC rule change goes into effect.

The Texas Tribune

Texas passes on $450 million summer lunch program for low-income families

The USDA estimates the families of 3.8 million children could have received $120 per child to cover summer lunches if the state participated in the new $2.5 billion program launching this summer. Texas is one of 15 states opting out.

The Texas Tribune

Federal complaint faults Texas Medicaid software glitches for removal errors

Health care advocates have asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Deloitte software errors they say disenrolled qualified Medicaid participants.

Texas Observer

The Lost Promise of Refuge Ranch

Christian activists brought concerns about sex trafficking to prominence in Texas and then failed the survivors they sought to help.

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