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Tucked away in Dallas sits a red-painted wonderland called Curiosities Antiques, where time travelers disguised as shoppers converge to hunt for fragments of the past amid what might be the most ...
This Q&A seeks to answer some common questions about reparations for Black people in the United States as a remedy for ...
They also approved a “Make Texas Healthy Again” bill that was backed by supporters of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. secretary of health and human services, and opposed by major corporations ...
In 2024, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission announced that Cook Children’s Health Plan was not among the plans that would not qualify for the state’s $116 billion Medicaid contract ...
Last year, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission denied Cook Children’s Health Plan a renewed contract to serve its membership, writes Rick W. Merrill, president and CEO of Cook ...
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia. According to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Texas ranks third in the nation for the number of Alzheimer’s cases and ...
Hospitals throughout Texas reported to the state health agency the cost of more than 30,000 hospital visits by undocumented immigrants after Gov. Greg Abbott ordered Texas hospitals to ask all ...
AUSTIN — Texas hospitals spent more than $121 million over the course of one month treating undocumented migrants, according to a memo released Friday morning. The memo — sent by Texas Health ...
Lynn Cowles, health and food justice programs manager at left-leaning think tank Every Texan, said $121.8 million is a drop in the bucket compared to the incurred costs from all uninsured Texas ...
The memo released by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission offers the first look at data that Gov. Greg Abbott required hospitals to report through an executive order signed last year ...
Lawmakers must ask to ensure Texas does not move Medicaid patients off trusted plans such as the Cook Children’s Health Plan in favor of out-of-state insurance.
The purging of IT and cybersecurity staff at the Department of Health and Human Services could threaten the systems used by the agency’s staff and the safety of critical health data.