TAB Calls for Expansion of Medicaid Managed Care to All Texas Counties
Austin – The Texas Association of Business today called for immediate action to expand Medicaid Managed Care (MMC) to save Texas taxpayers tens of millions of dollars per year. Currently, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) is prohibited from providing three Texas counties with an MMC program, a prohibition that drives up the aggregate health care costs of all Texans.
What the state has today is a system of increasing inequities in the cost and in the quality of health care, all while wasting taxpayer money. The HHSC has calculated that extending MMC to the South Texas …