AUSTIN – The combination of COVID-19 job loss and employer-provided health insurance is hitting Texas families hard, but many are eligible for health coverage under Medicaid if they sign up and meet income eligibility guidelines. Texas has the highest rate of uninsured residents and children in the nation, but state lawmakers nonetheless have declined to […]Read More
AUSTIN – Texas has the highest rate and number of children without health care insurance in the nation, according to a new report from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. Last year, some 873,000 Texas children lacked coverage, and more than 120,000 lost coverage between 2016 and 2018. Adriana Kohler, senior health policy associate […]Read More
AUSTIN, Texas – For the first time in a decade, the number of uninsured children in the United States has gone up. According to a new Georgetown University report, the number of uninsured kids rose by more than 275,000 in 2017, and nearly 4 million children in the U.S. now lack coverage. Texas has the […]Read More
AUSTIN, Texas — It can be a major setback for Texas health care consumers: a surprise bill for thousands of dollars from a doctor who isn’t in your insurance company’s network. Texas lawmakers approved a mediation plan in 2015 to allow patients to negotiate those bills, but health care advocates say it’s so complex that […]Read More
On April 15, 2015, Ed Hagan spent a sleepless night trying to cope with a sharp pain in his back. When morning came, Hagan, then a teacher at a Dallas middle school, was too sick to work. He headed to the emergency room at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, which he knew was in-network for his health insurance company, Aetna. […]Read More
More children in Texas and the nation have health coverage, according to a new report from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, but Texas leads the nation in the number of kids still without insurance. The report found the rate of uninsured children nationally dropped to a historic low of six percent in […]Read More
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