Texas could see Medicaid funding boost under public health emergency
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 Texans. Norris Cochran, acting secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, said in a let...
Source: statesman.com
