A bill has been filed in the state looking at food as a medication.Tyler Dahl is working as a volunteer packing food at the San Antonio food bank.

After resisting for 14 years, Texas lawmakers are considering expanding Medicaid coverage to healthy adults under the age of 65.

Issues with Medicaid coverage, including long wait times, abrupt loss of coverage and lack of political will to expand it, have contributed to Texas’ high uninsured rate for children.

A survey from the University of Kentucky College of Dentistry says Kentucky’s rate of dental decay in kids ages two to five years old is significantly higher than the national average. The talk of deep federal tax cuts has some Kentuckians worried it could subtract money from Medicaid.

Issues with Medicaid coverage, including long wait times, abrupt loss of coverage and lack of political will to expand it, have contributed to Texas’ high uninsured rate for children.

Bad because it increases the chances that your spouse will need a nursing home that you can’t pay for. Enter Medicaid. Texas has 42 individual Medicaid programs, but we will focus on only one: nursing home Medicaid.

Almost all of the pregnant women Dr. Joshua Splinter sees at his rural East Texas practice are on Medicaid. For years, he would treat these patients during pregnancy, deliver their

Leaders from the Children’s Defense Fund-Texas ask Texas lawmakers to protect Medicaid, which provides a safety net for 239,000 rural children in Texas.

Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick has published priorities for the Texas legislative session. Expanding Medicaid is not on his list. The four states that border Texas have expanded Medicaid and, notably,

GOP leaders who crafted the bill insist Medicaid is not specifically listed in the initial 60-page bill calling for cuts, which is true technically. And Trump himself went on Fox News on Tuesday night and told Sean Hannity about Medicaid “none of that stuff is going to be touched.”

A Texas doctor has been sentenced to 10 years behind bars in connection to a fraud scheme that prescribed durable medical equipment and genetic tests w

Bob must meet a medical necessity requirement for nursing home case. Generally, that means he has a medical disorder or disease requiring attention by registered or licensed vocational nurses on a regular basis. He must fall within an income and resource limit. Warning: numbers ahead.