Texas Hospitals are becoming alarmed by the expiration of the Medicaid Waiver 1115. Veronica Zaragovia speaks of this matter on a post in the KUT.ORG on July 14, 2015. The waiver will expire in September 2016 and Texas must be re-apply for it, before that date. Texas Officials are having to go through a rigorous negotiation process with the federal Medicaid Officials, to secure the federal funding. If Texas does not get the funding, it can affect many citizens needing surgeries for life threatening situations or to cope with a trauma.

The federal Medicaid funding is currently assisting hospitals in Texas with health care improvements, care for uninsured patients and programs that are not currently covered by insurance providers. The programs are setup to help patients and their families to cope with a traumatic event or to help them with the after effects of surgery. 

The denial of the funding from the federal government would cause the hospitals to not be able to get more advanced equipment or new technology to better assist with helping patients. It would also cause hundreds of hospital employees to lose their jobs due to the lack of funding. The providers will not be covering all the medical cost or special programs with the loss of the waiver.

In the time of them deciding whether to renew it or not, they will run with the consequences of not receiving as much funding as they did before. Which most likely they would need to raise the reimbursements for Medicaid.