Nearly 2 million Texas children and expecting mothers could face disruptions in their health coverage if the state Legislature fails to act on a pair of bills in the coming weeks, according to Cook Children’s Health Plan.
The health plan run by the Fort Worth-based children’s hospital warned of a “looming crisis,” saying in a press release Friday that “recent legislative inaction” threatens the health coverage of 1.8 million children and expecting mothers, 125,000 of which are within the plan’s Tarrant County service area.
Bills brought by state Rep. Charlie Geren, a Fort Worth Republican, and state Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, a Democrat from Corpus Christi, aim to change how the Texas Health and Human Services Commission awards contracts for the management of Medicaid programs that provide coverage to low-income families…