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Texas members of Congress demand reversal of CMS waiver rescission
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In stark contrast to Democratic calls to expand Medicaid in the wake of Texas’s loss of its Medicaid 1115 waiver, the Texas Republican Congressional Delegation wrote an open letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday asking them to reverse the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)’s waiver rescission. The letter claims the rescission compromises Texas’s future plans for Medicaid funding and decreases trust between the state and CMS.
“More than four million Texans, including half of all children in the State, depend on the stability of the State’s Medicaid program for quality health care for themselves and their families. Revoking the extension of Texas’ 1115 Waiver pulls the rug out from beneath these patients and puts their health care at risk. Hospitals and providers in the State have been pushed to the brink and stretched thinner than ever before duri