Texans who receive health insurance through Medicaid will have to requalify and renew to maintain their coverage for the first time in three years.
The public health emergency order that allowed for continuous Medicaid coverage during the pandemic is set to expire in May, and federal funding legislation ends the continuous coverage by April.
Therefore, the state of Texas will begin removing people who no longer qualify from the Medicaid rolls in April. That includes people using Medicaid programs like Healthy Texas Women, which provides free women’s health and family planning services. Enrollment in Medicaid, which provides health care to people with low incomes, has grown by about 2 million in Texas since February 2020, according to state data.
