By Steve Miller | Texas Watchdog

AUSTIN – When the announcement came down that the state was shuttering the Texas Consumer Health Assistance Program after its federal grant money expired, there was a collective tsk-tsk and reports of dismissed employees and blaming the congressional gridlock for “leaving smaller entities, such as the TCHP, in the front line to be [...]

By Mark Lisheron | Texas Watchdog

AUSTIN — The Texas Attorney General’s office is investigating an attempt to build the state’s social safety net out of $185 million in dental brace materials.
Investigators are looking into fraudulent Medicaid billing by 31 orthodontists after state health officials discovered spending on braces and dental visits for low-income children shot [...]

By Mark Lisheron | Texas Watchdog

AUSTIN — Medicare or Medicaid fraud may be at the center of a raid by the FBI, federal health agents and Texas Attorney General’s investigators on one of the Rio Grand Valley health care businesses run by former state Rep. Sergio Muñoz Sr.

By Mike Klein | GPPF Forum
ATLANTA — There was a whale in the room Thursday morning at the State Capitol.
THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT.

By Steven Allen Adams | West Virginia Watchdog
CHARLESTON — According to survey results, West Virginia’s health care system needs more government leadership, collaboration, transparency, and system improvement. But the survey leaves out the opinions of consumers.
Members of Subcommittee A of the Joint Committee on Health heard a report today from Paul Miller, the director of policy [...]