Starting March 1, Texas mothers eligible for Medicaid, or Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) through the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), will be able to get postpartum ...

State leaders have shown a decadeslong antipathy toward the health insurance program. If Trump makes severe reductions, it’s unlikely leaders would have the political will to make up any lost federal ...

Nine-year-old MJ Hernandez has been to a lot of doctor’s appointments in his young life. He was born at just 27 weeks old, and spent the first six months of life in the neonatal intensive care unit.

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- After Edilio Acosta moved to Texas, he said he didn't realize he wouldn't have the same access to free healthcare that he was used to in his home country of Cuba. In his ...

Next Level Hospice Care secures Texas Medicaid license, expands hospital access, and earns community recognition for ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Federal agencies are warning Texas they may withhold federal funding if the state’s delays and backlogs in administering healthcare and nutrition programs persist, according to ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect the latest data from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government put protections in place ...

Texas hospitals are facing a freeze in billions of dollars in federal Medicaid funding under a budget proposal introduced by House Republican leaders Sunday night. Republicans are moving to limit ...

New research from Texas A&M University College of Dentistry (A&M Dentistry), sponsored by Delta Dental, and published in the Journal of Public Health Dentistry, finds that adults living in rural ...

Victoria Ferrell Ortiz found out she was pregnant during the summer of 2017. The Dallas resident was finishing up an AmeriCorps job with a local nonprofit, which offered her a small living stipend but ...

What does Texas understand that other states don’t? With the recent addition of North Carolina and South Dakota, 40 states have now opted to expand Medicaid coverage. Texas legislators ignored the ...

Texas leaders have shown a decadeslong antipathy toward Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program that covers millions of low-income and vulnerable residents. They declined additional ...