Options for Medicare and Medicaid Dual Coverage People who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid benefits are referred to as dual eligible. A person may have partial or full dual eligibility.

Proposed Medicaid cuts of up to 85% by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) would destroy the state’s durable medical equipment (DME) infrastructure – and ...

Texas removed over 1 million children from the state’s Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) over the ...

Errin Smith did what she was told to do. The Round Rock mom knew about Medicaid "unwinding" and the need for the state to redetermine that her daughter Bailee, 10, still qualified for the health care ...

State leaders have shown a decadeslong antipathy toward the health insurance program. If Trump makes severe reductions, it’s unlikely leaders would have the political will to make up any lost federal ...

Starting March 1, Texas mothers eligible for Medicaid, or Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) through the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), will be able to get postpartum ...

The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services said he was “deeply alarmed” at the hundreds of thousands of children in Texas who have been removed from the state’s Medicaid program since April.

ABILENE, Texas - To expand Medicaid or not.That's the question for Texas lawmakers now that the Affordable Care Act is law. Gov. Rick Perry has made it clear that he doesn't support expansion. With ...

DiJuana Davis, with daughter Treasure Woodard, at home in Nashville, Tennessee. Davis is a plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit contesting the state’s Medicaid eligibility process. She and her children ...

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Texas leaders have shown a decadeslong antipathy toward Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program that covers millions of low-income and vulnerable residents. They declined additional ...