Priscilla Alaniz, MPH, CHW

Priscilla Alaniz (MPH, CHW) is a Certified Application Counselor under the federal Marketplace program and a Texas certified Community Health Worker. Between the two, her working day is the paperwork this site is about: sitting with somebody, opening YourTexasBenefits, and finding out what the household is actually eligible for rather than what the internet told them.

She writes the coverage, program, and billing pages here. That division exists because the question most Texans arrive with is not a medical question. It is “who decides, and what do they need from me”, and the person qualified to answer it is neither a physician nor somebody who has simply been through it. A Certified Application Counselor is trained and registered to explain the rules, help you complete an application, and tell you what evidence a decision will turn on.

What the designation does not include is the decision itself, and she is careful about that line in the writing. No article on this site tells you that you qualify for anything. Only the Texas Health and Human Services Commission can determine a Medicaid, CHIP, or Healthy Texas Women case, and only the Marketplace can determine a premium tax credit. Her job on the page is to make the rule legible, cite where it came from, date it, and point you at the office that can apply it to your household.