Millions of Texans — mostly children, young adults and new moms — stayed on Medicaid for the duration of the pandemic. The state will soon start reevaluating eligibility.
, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.She returned from vacation in January 2020 to learn she’d been laid off from her corporate job in the Austin area. Her car was totaled in an accident. At the same time, she found out she was pregnant with her first child.
Robertson accessed crucial health care during and after pregnancy — and straight through her next pregnancy. Crompton helps first-time moms like Robertson navigate the first two years of their child’s life, through the nurse-family partnership. For many low-income moms Crompton works with, pregnancy is the first time they get on health insurance as adults.
The last three years, though, have been a sea change, Crompton said. One client had been in and out of the hospital for untreated Type 1 diabetes. The continuous coverage has also allowed many women, like Robertson, to maintain health insurance in between pregnancies. At Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas, they’ve noticed moms and babies are coming into pregnancy and childbirth healthier than ever, said Marjorie Quint-Bouzid, the senior vice president for women’s and infants specialty health.
“When a woman typically could not afford to make [follow-up] visits, there was the barrier to care,” she said. “As clinicians, we’ve been able to see some of the benefits and the value of really designing programming that looks beyond that one postpartum visit.” The agency is making a significant hiring push by raising salaries, offering merit bonuses, allowing flexible work schedules and pushing overtime to keep up with the increased demand.YourTexasBenefits.com“After nearly three years, families are rusty at completing the renewal process, and many families have moved to a new home,” Stacey Pogue, senior policy analyst at Every Texan, a health care advocacy group, said in a press release.
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