We hear a lot about how Texas has a low cost of living. True, except in one area: health insurance. Last week, the Commonwealth Fund compared premiums for family coverage across the nation. The US average was $13, 871. Texas was $14,526. The real rub was the Commonwealth Fund analyzed premiums as a percent of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘children’s Medicaid’
The high cost of family coverage in Texas
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children's Medicaid, CHIP, Employer health insurance on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Benefit Bank: Billions in health and other benefits go unclaimed every year in Texas
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Benefit Bank, children's Medicaid, CHIP, Medicaid on February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Imagine thousands of dollars sitting in a bank. It’s in an account expressly set aside for you, but you don’t know it’s there. Or, maybe someone told you about part of it, but you had no idea there was more. Meanwhile, your family is scraping by, living paycheck to paycheck, with little hope of getting [...]
Children’s Medicaid/CHIP enrollment dips in January
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children's Medicaid, CHIP on January 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Texas enrollments in children’s Medicaid and CHIP took big a drop in January. Improving economy or re-enrollment snafus? Hard to know. In Tarrant County, 2,961 fewer kids were on children’s Medicaid, but 65 more were on CHIP. Statewide, 21,109 fewer kids were on children’s Medicaid, and 1,088 fewer were on CHIP.
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 »
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 [...]
Chapped about Texas’ Consumer Health Assistance Program
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children's health insurance program, children's Medicaid, Texas uninsured, Texas' Consumer Health Assistance Program on January 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Have your ears been burning? You wouldn’t know it by reading or listening to the local media, but the East Coast press has had quite a discussion around how much guidance Texas’ population needs to find coverage. First, the Washington Post broke the story of how Texas was preparing to shut down its Texas Consumer [...]
Oops! We did it again — missed out on CHIP bonuses
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children's health, children's health insurance program, children's Medicaid, Tarrant County uninsured, Texas uninsured, uninsured children Texas on January 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, the federal government awarded nearly $300 million in performance bonuses to 23 states for making access to health coverage easier for eligible children and signing up more children who qualify. To be eligible for a performance bonus, states had to adopt five of eight specified measures aimed at simplifying Medicaid/CHIP enrollment and renewal [...]
All I want for Christmas…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children's health insurance program, children's Medicaid, Medicaid, Tarrant County CHIP, Texas uninsured, uninsured children Texas on December 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
All I want for Christmas Is a world that cares That all kids get care Everywhere Gee, if we could only have ALL kids get care, then I could wish you “Merry Christmas!” It seems so wonderful to hear That more kids have found coverage in our state Gosh, oh gee, how happy I’d be, [...]
Good cheer!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children's health insurance program, children's Medicaid, Medicaid, Tarrant County uninsured, uninsured children Texas on December 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
More kids found coverage this month, which is good news. In Tarrant County: 2,093 more kids were enrolled in Medicaid. CHIP enrolllment dipped by 451. Overall, 192,243 Kids were enrolled in children’s Medicaid or CHIP, a 10% increase over December 2010. In Texas: 10,135 more kids were enrolled in children’s Medicaid. CHIP enrollment dropped by [...]
Could Texas be the Prodigal Son of healthcare?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children's health, children's Medicaid, Medicaid, Medicare, uninsured children Texas on December 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Last week, some new numbers came out that I had been eagerly anticipating. The federal government released state-by-state estimates of health spending. This is unusual. Each year, the government releases national spending numbers, but not by state. So, one of the things I’ve been curious about is around the Health Care Compact. Earlier this year, [...]
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 [...]
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