https://www.texastribune.org/2024/06/27/texas-medicaid-children-hospitals/
For years, Cook's Children, two other children's hospitals have administered Medicaid health coverage plans. Canceling their contracts would put jobs and coverage at risk, they say.

https://apnews.com/us-news/access-to-health-care-texas-lawsuits-general-news-907cc7b8dd34a4c65a0cb42027d18d76
Medicaid managed care contracts are routinely the most expensive contracts taxpayers fund. Texas officials earlier this month rejected attempts by several managed care organizations to cancel the proposal that would drop them from the state Medicaid program.. Representatives for Driscoll Health Plan said Thursday that their organization has appealed this decision to the state, as more than 500

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/texas/articles/2024-06-28/cook-childrens-sues-texas-over-potential-medicaid-contract-loss
Cook Children's Health Plan has filed two lawsuits against the state to stop the Texas Health and Human Services Commission from removing them as a longstanding Medicaid contractor.

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/cook-childrens-suing-state-after-being-denied-medicaid-contract-renewal/
Cook Children's Hospital suing Texas over Medicaid contract 02:32. NORTH TEXAS — Cook Children's is suing the state of Texas over its decision to deny the hospital's health plan a new Medicaid

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cook-children-s-sues-state-of-texas-over-medicaid-contracts/ar-BB1oXzgo
Texas Health and Human Services decided to not extend a Medicaid contract to Cook Children's Health Plan and other local plans. The decision would affect nearly 125,000 North Texans.

https://www.keranews.org/health-wellness/2024-06-26/cook-childrens-sues-texas-medicaid-contract-denial-lawsuit
Published June 26, 2024 at 12:54 PM CDT. Emily Nava. /. KERA. Cooks Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth is suing the state for denying the hospital system's health plan a new Medicaid contract

https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/cook-children-s-sues-texas-over-potential-19545667.php
In a news conference on Wednesday, the Fort Worth-based health care system announced the lawsuits as an attempt to halt the $116 billion Medicaid procurement process that removes Cook Children's and two other hospital-affiliated children's health plans from Medicaid STAR and Children's Health Insurance Program, also known as CHIP.

https://fortworthreport.org/2024/06/07/texas-health-commission-rejects-cook-childrens-appeal-for-medicaid-coverage/
Delivered to your inbox — completely free. The Texas Health and Human Services Commision rejected a protest from Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth seeking to remain in the state Medicaid program. The state's decision came after a June 4 public hearing in which Kay Molina, a deputy executive commissioner for the commission, told

https://news.yahoo.com/news/cook-children-hospital-sues-state-161609172.html
Officials with Cook Children's announced the suit, which was filed in Travis County, Wednesday. The dispute is over the state's process for awarding contracts for Medicaid, the health insurance program that primarily provides insurance for children, pregnant and postpartum moms, and adults and children with disabilities. In the Tarrant

https://news.yahoo.com/news/texas-stands-decision-not-award-204827127.html
June 6, 2024 · 3 min read. 55. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is standing by its decision not to award a large Medicaid contract to Cook Children's Health Plan, a major provider of Medicaid health insurance to kids and pregnant people in the Tarrant County area. In March, the state's Health and Human Services Commission

https://www.beckerspayer.com/contracting/cook-childrens-sues-texas-over-medicaid-contracts.html
The contract makes up the majority of Cook Children's Health Plan's business. The state also declined to award plans to two other system-owned Medicaid plans in the state: Houston-based Texas Children's Health Plan and Corpus Christi-based Driscoll Children's Health Plan. Executives from Cook Children's and Driscoll Children's previously told

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/18/texas-medicaid-provider-contracts/
Proposed changes to state Medicaid plans could shake up health coverage for 1.8 million low-income Texans. The move, which has not been finalized, would drop three large health plans run for two

https://www.ketr.org/2024-06-27/cook-childrens-sues-texas-over-medicaid-contract-denial
Cook Children's is suing the state of Texas after it denied the hospital's health plan a new Medicaid contract. Officials with the Fort Worth-based health care system announced the lawsuit during a news conference Wednesday. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission's $116 billion Medicaid

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/06/06/texas-medicaid-contracts/
State rejects health insurers' pleas to halt plan that will shake up coverage for 1.8 million Texans. Affected Texans who receive Medicaid coverage would be shifted to new insurers next year if

https://hoodline.com/2024/06/fort-worth-s-cook-children-s-battles-texas-health-commission-over-116-billion-medicaid-contracts/
Cook Children's Health Plan sues to retain Texas Medicaid contracts, contesting the HHSC's decision which may disrupt coverage for 1.8 million Texans.

https://www.allsides.com/news/2024-06-26-1016/healthcare-cook-children-s-hospital-sues-state-texas-over-medicaid-contract
Cook Children's Health Plan, a major provider of Medicaid health insurance to Fort Worth kids and families, is suing Texas over its plan not to award a Medicaid contract to the health system. Officials with Cook Children's announced the suit, which was filed in Travis County, Wednesday.

https://fortworthreport.org/2024/06/26/cook-childrens-files-suit-against-texas-after-being-dropped-from-state-medicaid-plans/
The fight over whether Cook Children's Health Care System can keep offering its health care plan to more than 125,000 families in the Tarrant County area is headed to court. ... alongside the Driscoll Health Plan in South Texas and the Texas Children's Health Plan in the Houston area, will be removed from the STAR and CHIP programs starting

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/26/texas-medicaid-contracts/
Among those who would be affected are a collective 700,000 families, pregnant women and children covered by Cook Children's Health Plan in the state's Tarrant service area, Texas Children's

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/cook-children-s-sues-texas-over-potential-medicaid-contract-loss/ar-BB1p4OAX
Cook Children's Health Plan has filed two lawsuits against the state to stop the Texas Health and Human Services Commission from removing them as a longstanding Medicaid contractor. In a news

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wENwkC_p9gY
Texas Health and Human Services decided to not extend a Medicaid contract to Cook Children's Health Plan and other local plans. The decision would effect nea

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/cook-children-s-sues-state-over-medicaid-contracts/vi-BB1oXquB
Texas Health and Human Services decided to not extend a Medicaid contract to Cook Children's Health Plan and other local plans. The decision would effect nearly 125,000 North Texans.

https://www.fox4news.com/video/1476819
Texas Health and Human Services decided to not extend a Medicaid contract to Cook Children's Health Plan and other local plans. The decision would affect nearly 125,000 North Texans.

https://headtopics.com/us/cook-children-s-sues-state-of-texas-over-medicaid-contracts-54866307
Texas Health and Human Services decided to not extend a Medicaid contract to Cook Children's Health Plan and other local plans. The decision would effect nearly 125,000 North Texans. Fort Worth-based Cook Children's is suing the state of Texas.The action is against a plan that would exclude Cook