Texas-based health care projects have been selected to receive about $38.8 million in federal money through an initiative that aims to support projects designed to deliver quality medical care and save money.

Winners of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department's Health Care Innovation Awards were announced Friday by the federal Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services. In addition to the direct awards, about $61.6 million will go to other projects that affect Texas.

Of exclusively Texas-based funds, the largest amounts will go toward projects at the Houston-based Methodist Hospital Research Institute — one, seeking to prevent ...

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