Last year advocates for the disabled in Texas became enraged when the state legislature instituted sweeping budget cuts to a state-funded children’s therapy program. Last week those advocates received some good news,reports KVUE.
On Friday the Texas Supreme Court delivered a temporary, last-minute victory to families of children with disabilities. The cuts were scheduled to take effect July 15, but the Supreme Court’s order will delay those cuts.
Therapy providers who treat children covered by Medicaid had insisted that the payment reduction would force them out of business. The Supreme Court’s temporary injunction buys time for the groups opposing the cuts to convince lawmakers to revisit the issue. In recent weeks 75 state lawmakers—61 Democrats and 14 Republicans—have written to health officials, expressing concerns about the Medicaid cuts.