The state’s Health and Human Services Commission is seeking formal approval for new Medicaid fraud rules that doctors say deny them due process and expand investigators’ power to halt their funding.
Emily Ramshaw
Emily Ramshaw was the editor-in-chief of The Texas Tribune from 2016 to 2020. During her tenure, the Tribune — billed “one of the nonprofit news sector’s runaway success stories” — won a Peabody Award, several national Murrow Awards and top honors from the Online News Association.
Before joining the Tribune in 2010 as one of its founding reporters, Ramshaw spent six years at The Dallas Morning News, where she broke national stories about sexual abuse inside Texas’ youth lock-ups, reported from inside a West Texas polygamist compound and uncovered “fight clubs” inside state institutions for the disabled. The Texas APME named Ramshaw its 2008 star reporter of the year. In 2016, she was named to the board of the Pulitzer Prizes.
A native of Washington, D.C., and the product of two journalist parents, Ramshaw graduated from Northwestern University in 2003 with dual degrees in journalism and American history.
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State Leaders Split With GOP Ticket on Abortion
Texas’ Republican leaders believe that abortion should not be performed in instances of rape — a stance that is at odds with a prospective Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan presidential administration.
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After Komen Drama, Planned Parenthood Expanding Breast Screenings
Planned Parenthood will expand breast health services to more than 40,000 women across five Texas cities, the result of increased donations following Dallas-based Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s short-lived decision to halt funding to the organization.
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Interactive: West Nile Virus Cases Statewide
State officials are reporting more than 380 human cases of the West Nile virus in Texas so far this year — and no region has been harder hit than North Texas. Here’s an interactive look at reported West Nile cases and deaths by county.
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Ryan’s Health Care Plan Has Familiar Feel to It
The Republican vice presidential hopeful’s controversial plan for reforming Medicaid and Medicare bears strong similarities to bills Texas Republicans advocated for — and eventually passed — during the last legislative session.
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One Year Later, Revisiting Perry’s Presidential Bid
One year ago today, Gov. Rick Perry made national waves by jumping into the GOP race for the presidency, a bid that ended five months (and a few infamous debate debacles) later. Revisit our interactive timeline of the highs and lows of his run for the White House.
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Runoff Voters Were in Mood to Oust Incumbents
The biggest election news on runoff night was Ted Cruz’s defeat of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in the Republican race for U.S. Senate, but there was a jaw-dropping ousting of elected officials up and down the ballot.
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Updated: New HHSC Chief Sees Opportunities in Medicaid, ACA
The state’s incoming Health and Human Services chief said that while Gov. Rick Perry and the Legislature will decide what to do about the Affordable Care Act, he’s hopeful the state and federal government will be able to work together to improve Medicaid.
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Approach to Medicaid Fraud Investigations Has Supporters and Critics
Medicaid fraud officials have won rave reviews for a new dollar-recovery strategy that lets them freeze funding to accused health providers while they pursue an investigation. But some doctors and dentists say there’s no due process.
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Despite Health Care Ruling, the State Can Wait
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold federal health reform — but to make the Medicaid expansion it requires essentially optional — has created, in the words of Donald Rumsfeld, a lot of “known unknowns” for Texas.
