State Agency to Ask for $300 Million to Fix Texas’ Medicaid
The request, which includes hiring more staff and updating the online application system, comes as applicants must wait for months to receive approval for benefits.
Lockdown Era Policies Hitting Medicaid Recipients
During the pandemic, federal regulations prohibited states from removing people from Medicaid, allowing access to nonstop health insurance coverage for about 3 million Texans who would’ve regularly lost coverage beginning in March 2020.
Medicaid Fraud Unit Results in $1.1M in Restitution
Melody Ann Villarreal and Oscar Gutierrez, Jr. were both found guilty of submitting fraudulent run sheets for ambulance transports that did not occur and submitting them to both Medicare and Medicaid for payment.