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The pandemic has overwhelmed understaffed state Medicaid agencies, and as Bidens COVID-19 public health emergency declaration ends, low-income people could find it even harder to get coverage.

Missouri had nearly 72,000 pending Medicaid applications at the end of February and was averaging 119 days to process one.

The pandemic has overwhelmed understaffed state Medicaid agencies, and as Biden's COVID-19 public health emergency declaration ends, low-income people could find it even harder to get coverage.

As the public health emergency ends, low-income people nationwide could find it even harder to have coverage.

The records at Texas oldest mental health hospital will be digitized and catalogued. Researcher says they can learn from the past.

Texas would stand to receive billions of dollars in extra federal Medicaid money if a pandemic public health emergency is extended through the end of the year, as a top federal official has suggested. The boost to the joint state-federal program that provides health care to low-income and disabled people would be a boon to state budget writers facing expected stagnant revenue and a long list of spending items. Extending the emergency also would continue expanded Medicaid coverage to some Texa...

In accordance with Texas’ COVID-19 vaccination timeline, Denton County health providers receiving vaccine shipments are now beginning to vaccinate the at-risk public, although stock remains limited. Outlined in Phase 1B of its vaccine plan, the state defines at-risk people as anyone over 65, or anyone over 16 who has a chronic medical condition, such as cancer or heart disease, or who is pregnant. Denton County Public Health spokesperson Jennifer Rainey said that going forward, all of the ...