Biden’s HHS Pulls Back 10-Year Extension of Texas Medicaid Plan

The Department of Health and Human Services overturned Friday a last-minute approval by the Trump administration extending Texas’s Medicaid plan for 10 years.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services “materially erred” in allowing the state to bypass the normal notice-and-comment process for approval of Medicaid waivers under Section 1115 of the Social Security Act, the department said in an April 16 letter.

Texas claimed in its request that an exemption from the notice-and-comment process was necessary to give health providers and the state’s low-income health program financial stability amid the Covid-19 pandemic. But the state didn’t show that ...