BELL COUNTY, Texas — The Texas Health Care Association said Bell County’s long term care facilities don’t have enough Medicaid funding to provide quality care for every patient, and there will be more even more seniors that need care in the future.
“The number of Texans over 65 is expected to more than double by 2030, and by 2050, is projected to increase by more than 262 percent,” THCA said in a press release.
THCA Director of Government Relations Scot Kibbe told Channel 6 the federal government matches what the state of Texas puts in. He said Texas could put more in, but the amount has not changed in four years.
“Over the years, Texas has fallen farther and father behind on that rate,” Kibbe said. “Even while health care becomes more expensive and the labor market gets more difficult.”
How has the Medicaid rate affected central Texas?
Source: THCA calls for more Medicaid funding ahead of ‘Silver Tsunami’ / kcentv.com
With the advent of newly rediscovered medical management techniques of SDF et. al. , 90% of all the Medicaid fraud in the state of Texas could be eliminated by one simple stroke of the keyboard: Coverage for kids up to 6 years old should only include prevention, medical treatement of caries (SDF) and extractions to manage infection and pain. Case closed.
I worked for many years in public heatlh, and all the good that has been done in that vein is subsequently sabotaged by O.R. pedodontists and general dentists looking to get rich, who then put SSCs and do prophylactic pulpotomies on deciduous teeth that have questionable value.
Enough is enough! No child has ever died from not getting a filling or crown on a tooth that will exfoliate or would better be extracted.
You are correct Dr. Bolin. The vast majority of dentists enrolled in the Medicaid Program are not seeing patients for genuine care, they simply want to get rich quick. I’ve heard dentists tell me they teach at the dental schools and hear their students talk about how rich they will get by going to work for the large chains. It is a joke. The State (HHSC) and their enforcement arm (the OIG) have no guts to do anything about it.