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 »
What is the economic value of healthy children? Rice University has the answer
Posted in 1, tagged children's Medicaid, Fort Worth CHIP, Tarrant County, Tarrant County CHIP, uninsured children Texas on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the best macroeconomic studies I’ve seen to date on the value of insuring children came out this week from Rice University’s Baker Institute. Here are the key headlines: Uninsured children receive about half as much health services/treatments as insured children. US children receive about $7 billion in uncompensated care annually (care that is delivered [...]
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