In recent years, Texas Medicaid spending has doubled, on the average, every six to seven years, an eightfold increase in less than 20 years. At this explosive rate of unprecedented growth, the present $17 billion annual Texas Medicaid budget will exceed $136 billion annually – more than one-quarter of a trillion dollars ($272 billion) a biennium in less than 20 years. That amount is more than double the state’s budget today.
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From Clipboard to Cloud: Ensuring Patient Privacy and Portability in Health Records
From Clipboard to Cloud: Ensuring Patient Privacy and Portability in Health Records Key Points HIPAA protects institutions, not information. Once health data leaves a covered entity for an app, vendor, or broker, federal protection ends, and Texas law leaves that gap open. The interest at stake is not only access to clinical records. It is...
August 12, 2026