Texas Medicaid eligible profession-
als (EPs) must be enrolled as perform- ing or billing providers to participate in the EHR incentive program. The enrollment process can be lengthy and may take up to 60 days to com- plete. If you do not initiate the enroll- ment process early by completing and submitting the Texas Medicaid Pro- vider Enrollment Application, tma
.tips/TMHPapplication, you may not receive your Medicaid provider cre- dentials in time to meet EHR program deadlines. If you already are enrolled, make
sure all credentials are up to date. Read “Reminder: Medicaid Enroll- ment Requirement for EHR Incentive Program” from the Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership for additional information on the Medicaid enroll- ment requirements for the EHR in- centive program. To access the article, visit tma.tips/Medicaidenrollment. For additional assistance with the
Texas Medicaid EHR Incentive Pro- gram, email
HealthIT@tmhp.com, or call the Contact Center at (800) 925- 9126 (option 4).
Six Texas organizations receive teen pregnancy prevention grants
THE U.S. DEPARTMENT of Health and Human Services Office of Ado- lescent Health (OAH) awarded more than $86 million in teen pregnancy prevention grants to nonprofit orga- nizations, school districts, universi- ties, and others. The 81 new grants will serve more than 291,000 youths each year in communities where teen birth rates remain high. Six Texas institutions and orga- nizations received grant funding, in- cluding Texas Women’s Healthcare Coalition member Healthy Futures of Texas. The nonprofit received $869,902 to implement and evaluate Big Decisions, an abstinence-plus ap-
proach to preventing teen pregnancy that has produced promising results for Hispanic low-income, urban youth. Healthy Futures will use the funding to demonstrate the curriculum’s effi- cacy for that population in rural com- munities and small cities. For a full list of grant recipients, visit
www.hhs.gov/ ash/oah/oah-initiatives/tpp_program/ assets/full-list-tpp-grantees.pdf. TMA is also a member of the Texas
Women’s Healthcare Coalition. The OAH grants support replica- tion of evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs in communities with the greatest need; increase ca- pacity in communities to serve vul- nerable youth, including homeless youth, parenting youth, and those in juvenile detention and foster care; fill gaps in the knowledge of what works to prevent teen pregnancy; and test innovative approaches to combating teen pregnancy. To learn more, visit
www.hhs.gov
/ash/oah.
Texas has until Sept. 30 to request Medicaid waiver extension
TEXAS’ FIVE-YEAR 1115 Medicaid Transformation Waiver will expire Sept. 30, 2016. To extend or renew the waiver, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) has to submit a request to the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS) by Sept. 30, 2015. Texas received a waiver in 2011 to
allow it to expand Medicaid managed care statewide, to establish a new un- compensated care pool for safety net hospitals and health professionals, and to establish and fund innovative projects to improve availability and quality of services to Medicaid and uninsured Texans. Federal and state funds make the waiver possible, with the state share provided primarily by large hospital districts.
HHSC took comments on the 1115
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