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2025 Texas Snapshot
The Healthcare Affordability Snapshot provides legislators, consumer advocates, regulators and other stakeholders a tool to compare their state’s health policies across other states. The categories examined in this resource explore a variety of policy options that have previously appeared in the Scorecard, as well as additional policies that impact health care affordability. Policies were selected […]
Read MoreTexas Authorizes Certain Primary Care Service Contracts and Prohibits Global Capitation
Texas has passed legislation authorizing health insurance plans to enter certain contracts for primary care services, reports The National Law Review. Under HB 2254, insurance plans can enter fee-for-service arrangements, risk-sharing arrangements, capitation arrangements, or any combination of these models. The legislation also prohibits global capitation arrangements. The legislation took effect June 20, 2025.
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A survey of more than 1,400 Texas adults, conducted from November 7 to November 13, 2023, foundthat: Altarum’s Consumer Healthcare Experience State Survey (CHESS) is designed to elicit respondents’ unbiased views on a wide range of health system issues, including confidence using the health system, financial burden and views on fixes that might be needed. […]
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The Health Care Value Hub’s 2026 Health Care Affordability State Policy Snapshot provides legislators, consumer advocates, regulators and other stakeholders with a tool to compare their state’s health policies across other states. The Snapshot explores policies impacting health care affordability across four domains: Policies were selected based on whether they have the potential to impact health care affordability or access to […]
Read MoreMore Than Half of Texans Skip Medical Care Due to Cost in 2024
More than half of Texans skipped medical care due to cost in 2024 according to a poll, reports Lonestar Live. Conducted by the Episcopal Health Foundation, the poll found that 46% struggle to afford health care, with younger adults, Hispanic residents, and people with lower incomes reporting higher rates of struggling to afford treatment. More […]
Read MoreTexas Snapshot 2024
The 2024 Healthcare Affordability Snapshot provides legislators, consumer advocates, regulators and other stakeholders a tool to compare their state’s health policies across other states. The categories examined in this resource explore a variety of policy options that have previously appeared in the Scorecard, as well as additional policies that impact health care affordability. Policies were […]
Read MoreStudy Finds Black Women Experience Severe Pregnancy Complications at Twice the Rate of White Women in Texas
By Dominic Anthony Walsh | Houston Public Media | July 15, 2024 A study found that Black women in Texas experience severe birth complications from pregnancy nearly twice as often as white women, reports Houston Public Media. The study from researchers at University of Houston found that for every 10,000 hospitalizations in 2022, about 60 white women […]
Read MoreStudy Finds Hispanic and Black Residents in Texas Have Poorer Health Than Those in Other States
A report shows that Hispanic and Black Texans experience greater inequities in health care compared to Hispanic and Black people living in other states, according to the Metro News. According to The Commonwealth Fund 2024 State Health Disparities Report, Texas ranked 44th out of 47th in health care system performance for Hispanic people, and ranked 32nd […]
Read MoreTexas has Fifth Highest Health Care Costs in the Nation
Texas has the fifth highest health care costs in the nation, reports the Houston Culture Map. The report, from Forbes Advisor, found Texas’ average annual premiums for plus-one health coverage ($4,626) and family coverage ($7,051) through employer-provided policies were the 4th highest in the nation. In addition, 16 percent of Texas adults chose not to […]
Read MoreTexas Survey Respondents Struggle to Afford High Health Care Costs; Worry about Affording Health Care in the Future; Support Government Action Across Party Lines
Key Findings A survey of more than 1,400 Texas adults, conducted from November 7 to November 13, 2023, found that: A Range of Health Care Affordability Burdens Like many Americans, Texas adults experience hardship due to high health care costs. Overall, well over half (70%) of respondents experienced one or more of the following health […]
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