Texas removes thousands of children from Medicaid each month due to red tape, records show

Texas Tribune

By: Elizabeth Byrne

Katherine Edmundson didn’t know her 7-year-old son was off Medicaid until she took him to the dentist for his annual cleaning in February. An employee at the front desk told her that his coverage was invalid and that her son couldn’t be seen that day.

Cortez sees the issue as linked to the Texas rate of uninsured children, which was the highest in the country in 2017 at 10.7%, according to a 2018 report by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. The Texas rate was more than twice the national child uninsured rate of 5%.

“We’re almost double the national average in terms of uninsured children,” Cortez said. “To me, that’s unacceptable and that’s something that Texas needs to fix immediately.”

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