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Hinojosa's bill to help draw down federal funds passes Senate
AUSTIN, April 14 - Legislation that would help South Texas hospitals draw down hundreds of millions of dollars for indigent healthcare has passed the Texas Senate.
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Williams sympathetic to efforts to secure more healthcare $$$ for South Texas
AUSTIN, April 11 - The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee says he is sympathetic to the efforts of South Texas hospitals that are working to get more federal funds to treat the indigent poor.
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Seifert: Medicaid Expansion - When Will the Governor Get Serious?
BROWNSVILLE, April 1 - Of course it was April Fools’ Day. Sadly, though, for two million uninsured Texans, Governor Perry, and Senators Cornyn and Cruz were not joking.
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Advocates rebut Perry on Medicaid Expansion
AUSTIN, April 1 - Texas Impact, Methodist Healthcare Ministries and former Texas Deputy Comptroller Billy Hamilton have issued a line-by-line rebuttal of Gov. Rick Perry’s opposition to expanding Medicaid.
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Matney: Loss of DSH money would be major blow for Valley hospitals
HARLINGEN, March 31 - The shortage of nurses, residency slots, Medicaid rates, Medicaid expansion, funding for physicians that see dual eligible patients and indigent healthcare were among the issues a South Texas hospital chief has brought to the attention of state lawmakers.
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Garcia concerned about redistribution of state’s DSH funds
EDINBURG, March 27 - Hidalgo County Judge Ramon Garcia has responded to criticism of South Texas hospitals from the Texas Conference of Urban Counties over healthcare funding for the indigent poor.
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Hinojosa's bill to help draw down federal funds passes Senate
AUSTIN, April 14 - Legislation that would help South Texas hospitals draw down hundreds of millions of dollars for indigent healthcare has passed the Texas Senate.
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Williams sympathetic to efforts to secure more healthcare $$$ for South Texas
AUSTIN, April 11 - The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee says he is sympathetic to the efforts of South Texas hospitals that are working to get more federal funds to treat the indigent poor.
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Lucio: Medicaid Expansion is a 'No-Brainer'
BROWNSVILLE, April 1 - Of course it was April Fools’ Day. Sadly, though, for two million uninsured Texans, Governor Perry, and Senators Cornyn and Cruz were not joking.
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Advocates rebut Perry on Medicaid Expansion
AUSTIN, April 1 - Texas Impact, Methodist Healthcare Ministries and former Texas Deputy Comptroller Billy Hamilton have issued a line-by-line rebuttal of Gov. Rick Perry’s opposition to expanding Medicaid.
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Matney: Loss of DSH money would be major blow for Valley hospitals
HARLINGEN, March 31 - The shortage of nurses, residency slots, Medicaid rates, Medicaid expansion, funding for physicians that see dual eligible patients and indigent healthcare were among the issues a South Texas hospital chief has brought to the attention of state lawmakers.
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Garcia concerned about redistribution of state’s DSH funds
EDINBURG, March 27 - Hidalgo County Judge Ramon Garcia has responded to criticism of South Texas hospitals from the Texas Conference of Urban Counties over healthcare funding for the indigent poor.
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Urban Counties group clashes with South Texas hospitals over healthcare dollars
EDINBURG, March 26 - Hospitals in South Texas are battling with the Texas Conference of Urban Counties over how healthcare funding for the indigent poor is managed. The hospitals would like to use taxpayer-generated county funds in order to leverage even more money from the federal governme |
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Perryman: Toward A 'Texas Solution'
WACO, March 21 - While the Medicaid system and Affordable Care Act (ACA) are not perfect, they are key aspects of the current health care environment in which Texas must function.
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Murray: New Medicare reform will produce savings for Valley seniors
DALLAS, March 21 - When was the last time your health care costs went down?
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Rocha: Lawmakers can help us bring stability to hospital finances
HARLINGEN, March 14 - When legislators from other parts of Texas visited the Rio Grande Valley in late January, Israel Rocha, governmental affairs director at Doctors Hospital at Renaissance, asked them to help hospitals in South Texas.
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Seifert: Medicaid Matters
BROWNSVILLE, March 11 - I am too old for this, I told myself, as the alarm chimed brightly at 3:25am.
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Zuniga: Perry opposes Medicaid expansion because it would help South Texas, Hispanics
McALLEN, March 5 - A community organizer says Gov. Rick Perry’s opposition to expanding Medicaid could be based on the fact that tens of thousands of people who would benefit live south of I-10 and are Hispanic.
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Hidalgo County passes resolution in support of Adult Medicaid
EDINBURG, February 26 - Hidalgo County Commissioners Court has become the first governmental entity in the Rio Grande Valley to pass a resolution in support of expanding Medicaid to include coverage for adults.
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Cass: Why Texas should accept federal funds for Adult Medicaid
SAN JUAN, February 26 - I am haunted by a hearing the Hidalgo County Medical Society had a few years ago when health care reform was first being discussed.
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Martinez Fischer: Why Texas should accept federal funds for Adult Medicaid
AUSTIN, February 26 - Texas is facing the biggest moral, economic, and human crisis in its modern history.
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South Texas hospital chief discusses top legislative issues
HARLINGEN, February 24 - The recent Valley Legislators Tour provided a rare opportunity to see and hear three top south Texas hospital executives discuss health care issues on the same panel.
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Tristan offers personal story to highlight need for Medicaid expansion
AUSTIN, February 22 - At a rally at the state Capitol, Valley Interfaith leader Rosalie Tristan gave two personal healthcare stories to highlight the need for expanding Medicaid.
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Peña Raymond: Debate Guns - But Fund Mental Health Care
AUSTIN, February 13 - No one in 1966 – especially not a six-year-old boy growing up in Benavides, Texas, where so many owned a gun for sport and deer hunting – could avoid being forever seared by the black and white images running under Walter Cronkite's narration on the evening of August 1.
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Seifert: Accept offer to expand Medicaid adult coverage
BROWNSVILLE, February 7 - In 2007, our community lost one of our finest and noblest neighbors to cancer. Joe Gallegos, father of five, had decided to drop his insurance so as to be able to cover his two boys, both of whom wanted to start to play football.
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DHR names Cardenas as its interim CEO
EDINBURG, January 10 - Doctors Hospital at Renaissance has named Dr. Carlos J. Cardenas as its interim chief executive officer.
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Saenz praises Hinojosa, Cantu, for funding restoration
LA JOYA, January 9 - Ask La Joya family practice physician Javier Saenz to sum up 2012 and he will tell you it was a nightmare.
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Pelly backs Valley medical school project
BROWNSVILLE, December 29 - A legendary Brownsville physician has thrown his weight behind efforts to create a four-year medical school in the Rio Grande Valley.
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Physicians win state victory on dual eligible deductions
McALLEN, December 13 - Reinstating the $140 deductible the State of Texas used to pay doctors for Medicare-Medicaid dual eligible patients will not solve the physician crisis in the Rio Grande Valley but it will help.
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Obamacare to 'provide welcome mat for thousands of eligible children'
EDINBURG, November 29 - The potential “welcoming effect” of Obamacare will add hundreds of thousands of pre-eligible children in Texas to Medicaid within three years, a healthcare experts has predicted.
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Dunkelberg to speak at UT Vista Summit
EDINBURG, November 25 - A key advisor to the RGV Equal Voice Network will be speaking at the UT Vista Summit at UT-Pan American on Wednesday.
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Kafka: My Medicaid Matters
AUSTIN, November 20 - A recent news item in the Rio Grande Guardian focuses on Texas Health and Human Services Commissioner Kyle Janek visiting South Texas.
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Perry: States can't afford Medicaid expansion, health insurance exchanges
AUSTIN, November 19 - It's really far past time for us to call ObamaCare what it truly is: an unprecedented government overreach into every American's life, forcing higher costs on individuals, practitioners, employers and state governments in lieu of actually fixing our health care system.
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