Texas Lege Preview: Will Abortion Laws Budge?

Texas continued its near-total ban last session. Is 2025 different?

"...anything seriously controversial, she says, but it could include Medicaid reimbursement for doulas, and an expansion of the state’s..."

Jan. 10, 2025 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...began limiting the services that school districts can request reimbursement for under the federal School Health and Related Services..."

Nov. 1, 2024 News Feature

Feds Approve Texas’ Plan to Expand Medicaid to Postpartum Moms

Texas is one of the last states to offer new moms coverage

"...the Texas legislature passed a law aiming to expand Medicaid access to moms 12 months postpartum and now, with..."

Jan. 17, 2024 News Post by Maggie Quinlan

Knowledge Is Power as Nursing Homes Combat COVID-19

There’s a lot we don’t know about the pandemics’s toll in care centers, but what we do know is bad

"...nursing home residents whose long-term care is covered by Medicaid, current reimbursement levels to those facilities already fail to..."

May 22, 2020 News Feature by Margaret Nicklas

Movies or Medicaid: A False Choice at the Texas Legislature

Another tug o’ war over funding for Texas’ film, TV, and gaming industry rebate program

"...to health spending, including $15 million as contingency extended Medicaid coverage for new mothers, from the current limit of..."

April 12, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Sendero’s Path Forward

Community health plan gets one-year budget reprieve

"...said board member Sherri Greenberg. "Texas did not expand Medicaid. State regulations hurt them. Federal reimbursement rates hurt them...."

Sept. 28, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Abbott Launches Investigation Into Planned Parenthood

Texas GOP jump to attack PP after sting videos surface

"...of the video reveals Nucatola was actually referring to reimbursement rates for legal donation, according to an analysis by..."

July 24, 2015 News Post by Mary Tuma

How Much Will Texas Spend?

The Legislature's conference committee spending proposals

"...raised a dismissive eye to the idea that raising Medicaid reimbursement rates (a House demand) wouldn't increase the number..."

May 21, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Lege Lines

Janek gets grilled, transportation moves, and more

"...an Austin-based IT firm that was supposed to detect Medicaid fraud, but ended up costing Texans $110 million for..."

Feb. 27, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Proceed With Caution

Sunset Commission looks to combine five health care agencies into one

"...ban" that excluded predominant provider Planned Parenthood from a Medicaid program, health leaders told the Sunset Committee: Tread carefully...."

Nov. 21, 2014 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Accounting and the War on Women, Part 2

AG says Planned Parenthood defrauded Medicaid

"...in a state-run investigation that the organization had defrauded Medicaid...."

July 24, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Are Women Being Served?

Preliminary numbers say Texas WHP is doing fine

"...the same period in 2012, when the program was Medicaid-paid and included Planned Parenthood as the single largest provider..."

March 19, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Health Care Elephants Battle Over Med School Prop. 1

St. David's formally opposes the proposition to build a med school in Austin

"...most from Prop. 1. Seton does $175 million in Medicaid business (sans the Brackenridge numbers), and Brackenridge pulls in..."

Nov. 2, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Planned Parenthood Out, But Docs Can Still Discuss Abortion in New Texas Women's Health Program

HHSC relaxes abortion gag rule

"...state-run Texas WHP will look a lot like the Medicaid-waiver program devised by lawmakers in 2005 – but without..."

Oct. 19, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

The Med School Solution

A medical school, a teaching hospital, and a new health care system?

"...the possibility of drawing down funds from a federal Medicaid program colloquially known as the "1115 waiver." Under that..."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Accounting and the War on Women

anti-PP groups claim non-profit engages in fraud

"...PGCC clinics "submitted false claims and falsified records to Medicaid on a regular if not daily basis," and has..."

Aug. 15, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Will Medicaid Buy a Medical School?

Waiver program could have payoff of hundreds of millions

"...The potential use of the program, known as the "Medicaid 1115 Waiver," presents what med school supporters are calling..."

Aug. 3, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Then There's This: Power to the People's

Community clinic gains new status – and a bundle of funds

"...carries with it a $650,000 federal grant and enhanced reimbursement of costly pharmaceuticals, among other benefits. It also allows..."

June 29, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith

Enough Providers for WHP Clients?

Lawmakers want to know what HHSC has planned

"...state-backed WHP, after federal funding was pulled from the Medicaid-waiver program because the state's desire to exclude certain providers..."

April 24, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Point Austin: Perry's Magic Wand

The governor's cynical assault on Planned Parenthood is illegal and dishonest

"...The feds pay 90% of the cost of the Medicaid-waiver program for preventative health care, but they forbid discrimination..."

March 16, 2012 News Column by Michael King

Another State Assault on Women's Health Care

New state rule targets Planned Parenthood, cuts almost 200,000 women from basic health care

"...The WHP is a Medicaid-waiver program that offers basic preventative health and family-planning care..."

March 2, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Destruction of Texas Health Care

The GOP crusade against Planned Parenthood is devastating basic care for Texas women

"...the renewal of the successful Women's Health Program, a Medicaid-waiver program that provides women's health care services to clients..."

Feb. 3, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Special Bills for a Special Session

UPDATE: Measures mix unfinished business, new ideas, grandstanding

"...economic and structural incentives to improve the quality of Medicaid services...."

May 31, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The War on Women's Health

To attack Planned Parenthood, lawmakers undermine health care ... and promote more abortions

"...the three provide services for women not eligible for Medicaid. In the following year, more than 28,000 women lost..."

April 22, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Less Is Still Less

A session budgetary snapshot reflects some progress, dim prospects

"...• Arc of the Capital Area would lose Medicaid benefits for more than 450 clients with disabilities; in-home..."

March 4, 2011 News Feature by Michael King

Health Care: Flirting With Armageddon

Choosing between a 'firing squad' and 'death by starvation'

"...to the Health and Human Services Commission, the federal Medicaid program pays for more than half of all births..."

March 4, 2011 News Feature by Michael King

Is That a Wrap for Incentives?

Amid economic woes and a race-baiting controversy, the future of TV, video game, and film funding in Texas looks shaky

"...gaming companies to have a bigger share of the reimbursement pie, TxMPA animation, video game, and visual FXindustry chair..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Dickensian Texas

Budget boss warns ending Medicaid means patients on the street

"...with the Tea Party plan to drop out of Medicaid, that will mean that Texans suffering from horrible, life-threatening..."

Nov. 24, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: Health Care Is the Least of It

The debate in Washington and at home is about how to be a workable country

"...provide, at a minimum, for a public option with reimbursement rates based on Medicare rates – not negotiated rates..."

Jan. 8, 2010 News Column by Michael King

Reproductive Health

Funding for reproductive health is intact – as is an increased allotment to Alternatives to Abortion

"...a $7.2 million increase to cover costs associated with Medicaid – including an increase in the reimbursement rate for..."

May 29, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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