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Your Texas Benefits offers you easy and secure online access to Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) benefits including Medicaid, Food Stamps, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Children's Health Insurance, and nursing home care and other services for people who are elderly or have disabilities.

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The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is a national program designed for families who earn too much money to qualify for Medicaid, yet cannot afford commercial insurance. The State of Texas developed TexCare Partnership to raise awareness of new children’s health insurance options and to help Texas families obtain affordable coverage for their uninsured children (ages 0-19).

Call toll-free 1-877-543-7669 (that's 1-877-KIDS-NOW) to apply by phone, or click here for online application.

Click here to get to Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)

Medicaid Buy-In for Children can help pay medical bills for children with disabilities. This program helps families who need health insurance, but make too much money to get traditional Medicaid. Families “buy in” to Medicaid by making a monthly payment (premium).

To be in this program a child must:

Be age 18 or younger
Meet the same rules for a disability that are used to get Supplemental Security Income (SSI). The child doesn’t have to get SSI.
Live in Texas
Be a U.S. citizen or legal resident
Not be married

The benefit period for this program is usually one year. Before the end of the benefit period, a renewal application will be sent to the family.

How to apply:

Get an application form for Medicaid Buy-In for Children from one of the following three ways:

Download Form H1200-MBIC
Call 2-1-1 and ask to have a Medicaid Buy-In for Children application mailed to you.
Go to an HHSC benefits office. Call 2-1-1 to find one near you.

For more details, view the MBIC Overview Document or visit the Texas Medicaid Buy-In for Children webpage.

Step Into a Healthy Future With Texas Health Steps!

Texas Health Steps (THSteps) is for children from birth through 20 years of age who have Medicaid. Texas Health Steps provides regular medical and dental checkups and case management services to babies, children, teens, and young adults at no cost to you. If your child's doctor finds a health problem during a checkup, he or she can make sure your child gets the medical care that is necessary to help prevent problems that could make it hard for your child to learn and grow.

Texas Health Steps will:

Help you find a doctor, dentist, or case manager
Help you make an appointment for a checkup
Help you get a ride or money for gas

Call Texas Health Steps toll-free 1-877-847-8377 (1-877-THSTEPS) Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Central Time.
TTY number 1- 800 - RELAY TX (735-2989)

Please click here for more information

Texas Health Steps Presentation

In May 2009, HHSC and Evercare of Texas ended their contract for the operation of the Integrated Care Management (ICM) program, which provided services to more than 75,000 aged, blind, and disabled (ABD) Medicaid clients in the Dallas/Tarrant Service Delivery Areas (SDAs). Subsequently, the 2010-11 General Appropriations Act (Article II, Special Provisions, Section 46, S.B. 1, 81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009), requires HHSC to implement the most cost-effective integrated managed care model for this population.

An analysis of the ICM, Primary Care Case Management (PCCM), and STAR+PLUS Medicaid managed care models resulted in HHSC’s conclusion that the most appropriate, cost-effective model to implement in response to the legislative mandate is STAR+PLUS.

For more information about STAR+PLUS click here.

STAR+PLUS Expansion Fact Sheet

(PCHP) is a Dallas-based regional managed care organization that was created to serve as a bridge connecting the community's uninsured population to programs and services designed specifically for them, including Medicaid Managed Care and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). PCHP is an integral part of Parkland Health and Hospital System which also includes Parkland Memorial Hospital, Community Oriented Primary Care and the Parkland Foundation.

Our service area covers Dallas, Collin, Ellis, Hunt, Kaufman, Navarro and Rockwall counties.

Parkland Community Health Plan, Inc.

Medical transportation provides FREE transportation to any Medicaid appointment.
You must be a Medicaid recipient and have no other means of transportation available to get to your appointment.

To schedule an appointment please call at least two business days in advance:
1-877-633-8747
1-877-MED-TRIP

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