Texas faces a mental health workforce shortage in 2026, with 393 HPSAs affecting 13.4 million residents and only 32% of needs met.

Lawmakers took important steps in 2025, but hundreds of Texas children still can’t access intensive mental health services, ...

A proposed rule would allow some children to qualify for the Medically Dependent Children Program — a Medicaid program that ...

The Texas Legislature at least partially implemented less than a third of recommendations from the state’s 2024 Children’s Behavioral Health Strategic Plan, according to a recent report. Many of the ...

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission in 2024 chose to award Medicaid contracts to national for-profit insurers over Cook Children’s Health Plan and two other Texas-based nonprofit insurance ...

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Texas saw the largest increase in the rate of uninsured children in the country between 2022 and 2024 — and experts warn it will likely get worse. Texas once again had the worst rate of uninsured ...

Texas Children’s Global HOPE and Baylor College of Medicine Global Health, with support from the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, an independent charitable organization, announced the next front in ...

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More than 125,000 North Texas families could soon lose their current health insurance provider if state lawmakers don't act. In March 2024, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission announced ...