Court Rules for Texas in Fight Over Extension of Medicaid Waiver

Texas has won Round 1 of what could become a long court fight with the federal government over the shape of its Medicaid program over the next 10 years.

A federal court Aug. 20 temporarily blocked an April decision of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that would have rolled back a 10-year extension of the Texas Medicaid program granted by the Trump administration in January.

The CMS said in announcing the about-face that the approval of the extension by Trump officials was void because they had skipped an essential step: holding a federal comments period on the complex ...