Simplified Eligibility for Children's Medicaid in Texas:  A Status Report at Nine Months


 

Publication Date: February 2003

Publisher: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

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Research Area: Health

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

This report describes the initial success of Texas new law in removing barriers to children's Medicaid participation and provides the baseline information needed to observe and interpret how the next phase of implementation, the EPSDT mandate, will enhance or undermine the goal of broader coverage of Medicaid-eligible children in Texas.