Chris Traylor’s new position comes after joining the federal government in July as deputy administrator for strategic initiatives at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Medicaid
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Texas still hasn’t expanded Medicaid. That’s leaving a gap in coverage for hundreds of thousands.
More and more states have decided to expand Medicaid, but Texas has not budged. With more than a half million Texans in the so-called health coverage gap, will the politics of the issue shift in next year’s legislative session?
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House committee says Texas faces “significant challenges” in curbing substance abuse
In a report released Friday, the House Select Committee on Opioids and Substance Abuse wrote that Texas “must remain vigilant” when it comes to ongoing issues around addiction and drug abuse.
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Texas doctors seek more opioid addiction treatment options under Medicaid
The state’s Drug Utilization Review Board is taking public comment on whether to expand Medicaid’s preferred drug list to include medication-assisted treatments for opioid addiction besides Suboxone.
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Dangerous Deliveries
In Poland, midwives play a significant role in childbirth. In Texas? Not so much.
Poland and Texas have comparable populations, conservative governments and stringent anti-abortion policies. But they differ significantly in how health care is delivered for women — and in the role they allow midwives to play in the childbirth process.
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House committees hear concerns on managed care program, medically vulnerable Texans
Dozens of people — including children and adults in wheelchairs, parents, insurance executives, state agency officials and representatives of advocacy groups — packed the room for the latest hearing in the aftermath of a Dallas Morning News investigation into Medicaid managed care companies.
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Texas Supreme Court rules Xerox responsible for fraudulent Medicaid dental payments
The decision comes years after the state found that Texas Medicaid and Healthcare Partnership, a subsidiary of Xerox, allowed workers with limited expertise to approve dental claims for the state’s Medicaid program.
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TribCast
Immigrant family separations, Pain and Profit in Medicaid managed care
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Ross, Emma and The Dallas Morning News’ Dave McSwane about the separation of immigrant families on the Texas-Mexico border and McSwane’s Pain and Profit series about misdeeds in the state’s Medicaid managed care program.
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A Texas health commission employee was fired. Then she received the private information of more than 100 clients.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission’s Office of the Inspector General is investigating how a former agency employee was mailed a box full of private client information.
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Texas, feds agree to renew Medicaid funds for safety net hospitals
With a Republican in the White House, top Texas leaders have reached an agreement with the federal government to keep Medicaid money flowing into Texas to help hospitals treat uninsured patients.
