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Strengthening Texas’ Healthcare Safety Net

Educate on, and advocate for, policies that enhance hospital funding, expand access to quality care, and support a stronger, more efficient healthcare system across Texas.

Who We Are

Texas Essential Healthcare Partnerships (“TEHP”) is a non-profit corporation that operates exclusively for social welfare in the State of Texas. TEHP supports policies that strengthen the healthcare safety-net system, and improve access to, and the availability, delivery, efficiency and funding of, quality healthcare services within the State of Texas. TEHP’s goal is to educate members of the community and empower hospitals so that they can provide accessible and high-quality healthcare services to patients in their care.

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Texas Indigent Healthcare Association Joins TEHP Efforts to Unfreeze Federal Funding for Texas’ Hospital Safety Net

In TIHCA’s letter to CMS, program director, Windy Johnson, points out that Texas’ indigent care programs rely on the viability of our local safety net hospitals. Right now, our communities are feeling pressure from the decision not to approve three Medicaid managed care directed payment programs, and we are hopeful that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will approve them before the end of the year. Click here to read more

Texas Indigent Health Care Association Urges CMS to Approve DPPs

The Texas Indigent Health Care Association Board of Directors write to support your ongoing efforts to work with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) to avoid further reductions in Medicaid payments to the safety net providers that serve the Texas Medicaid population. Our indigent care programs rely on the viability of our local safetynet hospitals. Right now, our communities are feeling pressure from the decision not to approve three Medicaid managed care directed payment programs, and we are hopeful that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will approve them before the end of the year. Click here to read more

Letter from Senator Vela Regarding 1115 Waiver

Dear Secretary Becerra, Administrator Brooks-LaSure, Deputy Administrator Tsai, and Deputy Director Costello: I write to express concerns about the expiration of several programs that provide critical funding and access to health care services for Medicaid enrolled and uninsured individuals across Texas. CMS and the state should work swiftly to renew Texas’ 1115 Medicaid waiver and related DPPs. Continue Reading

Texas Democratic Delegation Letter

Dear Secretary Becerra, Administrator Brooks-LaSure, Deputy Administrator Tsai, and Deputy Director Costello: Thank you for your tireless work to ensure the health and well-being of all Americans, particularly in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 public health emergency. On behalf of our Texas constituents, we are grateful for your efforts. Click here to read more