Last week, the state issued a pretty important report. It was basically a report card on how Medicaid managed care plans were performing on key child health benchmarks. I’m really interested in this information, and you should be, too. First of all, Texas pays private health plans to manage the care of kids in Medicaid [...]
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How good are Texas’ Medicaid plans at keeping kids healthy?
Posted in Children's health, Medicaid, tagged children's Medicaid, Medicaid, Tarrant County, Texas Medicaid, Texas Medicaid managed care, Texas Medicaid performance, Texas Medicaid plans, Texas Medicaid quality on January 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Congratulations, Texas! You’re the Second Most Improved!
Posted in Children's health, Children's health insurance program, CHIP, health reform, Medicaid, uninsured, tagged children's health insurance program, children's Medicaid, l, Medicaid, Tarrant County uninsured, Texas uninsured, uninsured children Texas on December 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Texas does not lead the nation in percentage of uninsured children. That privilege goes to Nevada. We’re second. That was the news this week from Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, which analyzed 2010 Census Data on uninsured children. (Click here to read the report.) The Institute also found that some states have done a much [...]
Survey says: Medicaid and CHIP families like their coverage
Posted in Children's health, Children's health insurance program, CHIP, health reform, Medicaid, Texas Medicaid, uninsured on November 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, the most comprehensive survey yet was released of parents’ perceptions about and satisfaction with Medicaid and CHIP. All 1,936 respondents surveyed were from households at or below 250% of the Federal Poverty Level. Nearly one-third had a child with employer coverage, one-third had a child on CHIP or Medicaid, and one-third had a [...]
You might as well speak up; Lord knows everyone else is
Posted in Children's health, CHIP, tagged children's health, children's health insurance program, children's Medicaid, CHIP, Medicaid, Tarrant County uninsured, Texas uninsured, uninsured children Texas on October 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Got a couple of thousand dollars to send to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, otherwise known as the “Super Committee”? Me neither. Don’t sweat it. We’ve already been outspent. Way outspent. You see, the congressional Super Committee is tasked with finding $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction measures by Thanksgiving. That makes them very [...]
You’re covered; wait — you’re not covered; OK, you’re covered again. Just get used to it
Posted in Children's health, Children's health insurance program, tagged children's health, children's Medicaid, CHIP, Medicaid, Texas uninsured, uninsured children Texas on October 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The number of children covered by CHIP and Medicaid dropped in October, both in Tarrant County and statewide. It’s discouraging, but this happens every October. Kind of insane, huh? One person explained it to me a couple of years ago that September has fewer working days so fewer state workers are available to process applications. [...]
Why now is not the time to block grant Medicaid in Texas
Posted in Children's health, Children's health insurance program, CHIP, tagged children's health insurance program, children's Medicaid, Medicaid, Tarrant County uninsured, Texas uninsured, uninsured children Texas on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One of the topics in the Republican presidential debates has been around converting Medicaid to a block grant program. In fact, presidential contender and Gov. Rick Perry commented that block grants would solve the state’s uninsured problems: “Medicaid needs to be block-granted back to the states so we can come up with the best way. [...]
Children’s Medicaid/CHIP enrollment up in September
Posted in Children's health, Children's health insurance program, Medicaid, tagged children's health, children's health insurance program, children's Medicaid, CHIP, Medicaid, Tarrant County uninsured, Texas uninsured, uninsured children Texas on September 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Enrollment in children’s Medicaid and CHIP continues to grow in Tarrant County and statewide. Tarrrant County hit another new record in September: 144,964 children now depend on Medicaid 39,695 depend on CHIP Tarrant County enrollment is up 7.7% over a year ago. Texas enrollment hit a new record, too: 2.35 million kids now depend on [...]
Our future labor force and Texas’ undependable incubator
Posted in Children's health, Children's health insurance program, tagged children's health insurance program, children's Medicaid, Tarrant County CHIP, Tarrant County uninsured, Texas uninsured, uninsured children Texas on September 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’d like to opine for a few minutes about the future labor force. Let me start with a few broadbrush trends: The nation’s future labor pool is shrinking. Families are having fewer children, leading to a declining birth rate in this country made worse by what economists have called the Great Recession. Birth rates tend [...]
We’ve got our work cut out for us in Tarrant County
Posted in Children's health, Children's health insurance program, CHIP, Texas Medicaid, uninsured, tagged children's health, children's health insurance program, children's Medicaid, CHIP, Medicaid, Tarrant County uninsured, Texas uninsured, uninsured children Texas on August 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome back to more hard work. Summer is over, and while the heat remains, vacations are largely a memory. Roll up your sleeves. We’re still way behind. Last week, a new Urban Institute study showed that Texas ranks first nationally in the number of children who are uninsured but eligible for Medicaid and CHIP. Of [...]
Holding up the safety net
Posted in Children's health, Children's health insurance program, CHIP, Medicaid, Texas Medicaid, uninsured, tagged children's health insurance program, children's Medicaid, CHIP, Everman schools, Medicaid, safety net, Tarrant County CHIP, Tarrant County uninsured, Texas uninsured on August 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been an interesting week with all the hot air and hot weather. Thanks to an outcry from advocates, Medicaid was exempted from the federal budget cuts. If you want to read more detail on the agreement and what led up to it, click here for some great slides “What’s the Deal” from the Interreligious Working Group [...]
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