Today, the Centers for Medicaid Services (CMS) rescinded its approval of Texas’ Medicaid 1115 waiver. The waiver provides funding for “uncompensated care” in the absence of an expanded Medicaid program.
The waiver was approved by the Trump Administration on Jan. 15, 2021 through 2030, even longer than the extension requested by the Abbott administration of 2027.
The current waiver is set to expire on September 30th, 2022.
CMS made the decision on the grounds that Texas didn’t have adequate reasoning to request that it be exempt from the public notice and comment requirements.
From the CMS’s letter to the Abbott administration.
Texas’s rationale for seeking exemption from the normal public notice process was premised on the state’s conclusory assertion that healthcare providers in the state must have the financial stability they need to prepare for and respond to the COVID-19 public health emergency, and without an emergency approval of the extension req
With No Medicaid Expansion in Sight, Hospitals and Nonprofits Fill the Coverage Gap
The North Texas Healthcare Coverage Collaborative is providing a financial stopgap for the uninsured.
By Will Maddox
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Healthcare Business
April 12, 2021
11:00 am
In addition to claiming nearly 50,000 lives in Texas, COVID-19 has resulted in job loss for thousands more. Along with a loss of income, many of these Texans lost their health insurance coverage. But a collaborative is stepping up to provide short-term assistance to those in need of coverage. The United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council, and the Dallas County Enroll North Texas ACA Coalition have launched the North Texas Healthcare Coverage Collaborative (NTHCC) to provide financial assistance to help purchase coverage.
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