Texas Needs More Behavioral Health Care Strides in 2025
The impact of behavioral health confronts us all, whether it’s ourselves, a family member or a friend who’s struggling with anxiety or depression. With boosts to payment and coverage, and further building on the behavioral health infrastructure gains we made in 2023, we can begin to turn the page on the psychological impacts of the pandemic and make Texas happier and healthier.
A New Phase of the Fight: Detailing Texas Hospitals’ Immeasurable Value
Unbelievably – to me, at least – the second half of 2024 is upon us. We’re now less than six months from another session of the Texas Legislature that promises massive implications for hospitals and health care. And this month, our fight enters a new phase.
Millions of Medicaid Disenrollments Highlight Texas’ Deep Coverage Needs
Coverage is a constant focus of ours here at the Texas Hospital Association, and for good reason: Insurance coverage is paramount to patient care and keeping Texans healthy, and our state has the highest uninsured population in the country. In our minds, it’s never a bad time to talk about it.
A Threat to Hospital Payments is a Threat to Patient Care
Texas hospitals are mission-driven organizations dedicated to healing patients. However, they are also businesses that have to worry about their financial health – which is not guaranteed. And unlike any other business, cutting off a vital source of operating revenue will lead to devastating consequences for the health of the communities they serve.
Texas Hospitals Going Above and Beyond on Charity, Indigent Care
Everyone needs and deserves medical care. Texas hospitals understand that as well as anyone. And in a state with the country’s highest uninsured rate, where charity care and indigent care are a fact of life – from the Panhandle to Port Isabel, from El Paso to Houston – our hospitals fulfill that need.