Increased Investment In Medicaid Needed To Protect Houston Area’s Most Vulnerable Seniors, Disabled

In testimony before a field hearing of the House Human Services Committee, the President of the Texas Health Care Association (THCA) said that in order to protect the Houston area’s most vulnerable frail, elderly and disabled seniors, it will be essential in the year ahead to initiate a much-needed discussion about how to strengthen the Texas Medicaid program’s reimbursement rate, which has dangerously slipped to 49th in the entire nation.

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Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on March 15th, 2008