Trump administration withholding billions in Medicaid funding for Texas hospitals

Texas hospitals began losing millions of dollars a day on Monday after the Trump administration began withholding billions in Medicaid funding.The Trump administration is withholding billions of dollars in Medicaid funding for Texas hospitals. The fight centers on questions over how Texas taxes its hospitals to generate the state's share needed to receive federal matching funds.The Texas Health and Human Services Commissioner is working to reach an agreement with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for funding.However, Texas hospitals began losing an estimated $27 million a day on Monday with the federal withholdings.As of right now, there isn't an immediate disruption for Medicaid patients, but the longer funds are withheld, the impacts could trickle down to patients, employees, and services."I can tell you the safety net hospital and children's hospitals will be hit very hard," says Stephen Love, the President & CEO of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council.Texas Gov