AUSTIN, Texas — Congressman Lloyd Doggett's office received a whistleblower report from Texas Health and Human Services Commission that exposed system glitches and errors resulting in coverage loss for thousands of Texans.
Doggett's office provided KVUE with a copy of an email from whistleblower staff members who say they were tasked with processing close to 6 million Medicaid recipients within a tight eight month time frame, but received numerous emails from agency leadership indicating thousands of people had been denied coverage.
Despite multiple inquiries, Doggett's staff claims the reasons for these denials were not adequately explained by leadership from the agency. The email says staff were informed of approximately 80,000 people losing coverage erroneously, including several thousand pregnant women who needed critical services during their pregnancies and afterwards.
One of the issues included a coding error that placed kids in the wrong coverage group, causing the state to miss out on $100 million in federal funding. Doggett is calling on officials to pause the state redetermination process until a complete investigation is done.
"What I would really like to see at the state level is there are an estimated [300,000] to 400,000 Texas children that are eligible for Medicaid today to get access to a family physician who are not in the program. We should be adding more people, not denying coverage to people because the State has not been doing its...
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