Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect the latest data from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government put protections in place ...

Texas moms will be able to stay on Medicaid for a year after childbirth, after the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid approved the state's application on Wednesday, according to emails obtained ...

Lar Bwe, a Burmese refugee who does not speak English, recently received a letter in the mail she couldn’t read. The 49-year-old mother knew from the state of Texas logo it was important, so she took ...

With a STAR+PLUS plan from UnitedHealthcare, you have access to a large network of doctors and specialists, as well as a service coordinator who helps manage your care and keeps you on track for ...

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In Texas, health advocates often find themselves playing defense to encourage leaders to preserve the state’s relatively frugal public service offerings while also pushing for more. That’s why a $300 ...

Elysse Adkins speaks to a Texas Health and Human Services advisor about her health coverage options at a San Antonio Food Bank event organized as the state began dumping people from the Medicaid rolls ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is scrutinizing how Texas and Missouri process Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program enrollments and commencing a process that could result in ...

When Texas politicians opted not to expand Medicaid to low-income workers under the Affordable Care Act, they lost out on tens of billions of dollars a year in federal funding for the state's ...

Nearly 1.7 million Texans have lost their health insurance — the largest number of people any state has removed — in the months since Texas began peeling people from Medicaid as part of the ...