The new federal budget law, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the Act), enacted on July 4, 2025, makes dramatic changes to the ...

As of Sept. 1, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission has a new contract for the STAR+PLUS Medicaid program. Given the changes to STAR+PLUS in your area, now may be a good time to review ...

Experts warn that cuts to Medicaid could further erode protections for contraception access. “State policies are really ...

Specific changes to SNAP and Medicaid — and other provisions in the bill — could have significant impacts in Texas.

Texas Rep. Wesley Hunt is demanding answers from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul over how many of the state’s estimated 670,000 ...

As of Sept. 1, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission has a new contract for the STAR+PLUS Medicaid program. Given the changes to STAR+PLUS in your area, now may be a good time to review ...

April is Medicaid Awareness Month—a time dedicated to highlighting the vital program that provides health coverage to approximately half of the 8 million children living in Texas. Medicaid is ...

New study ranks state policies as states increasingly define who has access to contraception and who does not.

Texas’ recent unwinding of Medicaid and CHIP has been criticized, dropping more than a million people eligible for the health insurance programs. Decades ago, Texas officials got kids health ...

Texas has removed thousands of people from Medicaid rolls after a pandemic moratorium on such removals ended. Contributor Victoria Eardley writes that this is an effort to "right size" the program ...

Last December, he became one of 810,000 children dropped from Texas’ Medicaid program in the previous five months, but was reinstated through his mother's efforts. An impossible task.