Texas Programs and Who Qualifies
Healthy Texas Women, CHIP Perinatal, county indigent care, and the rest of the state list.
- Children with Special Health Care Needs: The CSHCN Services Program in Texas
June 26, 2026
The CSHCN Services Program, the waiting list question nobody answers straight, and what a Texas family should ask before counting on it for a child.
- Texas Health Programs: The Full State List and Who Each One Is For
June 23, 2026
Beyond Medicaid and CHIP, Texas runs a scattered list of health programs. Who each one is for, what HHSC publishes as its limit, and which to try first.
- Kidney Health Care Program: The Texas Program for End Stage Renal Disease
June 22, 2026
The state program for Texans with end stage renal disease: what it is, where it sits against Medicare and Medicaid, and which office holds the criteria.
- Appealing a Denial in Texas: The Fair Hearing and Its 90 Day Clock
June 17, 2026
Ninety days from the effective date of the action, orally or in writing. What a Texas fair hearing can fix, what it cannot, and why late is worth asking.
- Breast and Cervical Cancer Services in Texas: Screening, Diagnosis, Medicaid
June 12, 2026
Screening and diagnosis through the state program, and the Medicaid pathway a cancer diagnosis can open in Texas when nothing else would take the patient.
- Texas Health Steps: What a Child on Texas Medicaid Is Entitled To
June 5, 2026
Texas Health Steps is the state's name for EPSDT: checkups, dental, and case management that come with a child's Medicaid enrollment rather than a new form.
- What Counts as Income in Texas: MAGI, Household, and the Wrong Denials
June 4, 2026
MAGI, household composition, and self-employment: the counting errors behind a large share of wrong Texas denials, and how to check the figure yourself.
- CHIP Perinatal: Coverage for a Pregnancy the Other Pathways Do Not Reach
May 19, 2026
CHIP Perinatal reaches 202% FPL and covers the pregnancy itself. The postpartum window is 60 days and two visits, not the 12 months people have read about.
- Healthy Texas Women: The Highest Published Limit on the HHSC Chart
April 28, 2026
204.2% of the federal poverty level is the highest published limit of any program on HHSC's chart. Who Healthy Texas Women covers, and what it does not.
- County Indigent Health Care in Texas: Chapter 61, County by County
April 22, 2026
Every Texas county runs one, the statutory floor is 21% FPL, and the answer is county by county. What chapter 61 requires, including three drugs a month.
- Applying Through YourTexasBenefits: The Account, Documents, and Timelines
April 18, 2026
One HHSC application is screened against several programs. The account, the documents, the interview, the timelines, and who is free to help you file it.