Starting this month, rules that helped Texans maintain Medicaid health insurance during the pandemic are over. Nearly 6 million Texans who get health insurance through Medicaid will need to go through a redetermination and renewal process. | via keranews
On Tuesday, outreach workers from the JPS Health Network and the Tarrant Area Food Bank set up shop in the parking lot of the public hospital system’s Diamond Hill Health Center on Fort Worth’s Northside to help people sign up for assistance and start the Medicaid renewal process.
“I’ll tell you what happens in the meantime: They run out of money for the basic living necessities like rent, utilities, gasoline for the car, and they come to the foodbank because that’s one place they can go if they can’t afford groceries,” she said. Texas is one of 10 states where lawmakers have chosen to forego expanded funding and coverage authorized under the Affordable Care Act, which left aboutLow-income families in Texas have faced a series of setbacks as the pandemic’s expanded safety net shrinks and inflation continues to eat away at earnings. In March,Starting this month, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission began sending out renewal notices inwith “Action Required” printed in bright red.
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