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Steve Love, president and CEO of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council, a group that works with 80 hospitals in North Texas, said the waiver is creating two funding pools: an uncompensated care pool — costs of care provided to individuals who don't have Medicaid funds; and delivery system reform incentive payments.
Texas has the potential to receive up to $29 billion over the five years of the waiver, which is more than the $14 billion in funds that are available under the upper payment limits program, according to the Texas Hospital Association's website.
Translation- If the state won't do it hospitals will. Why won't the state do it?