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Star Health is a Medicaid managed care program serving children and youth in foster care in all 254 counties in Texas.
HB 72 would require the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) to ensure that each child who resides in Texas and who is eligible for certain adoption assistance or services provided by the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), or for assistance or services provided under the permanency care assistance program, remains or is enrolled in the STAR Health program (unless or until the child is enrolled in another Medicaid managed care program). The adoptive parent of such a child who received Supplemental Security Income (SSI), or was receiving SSI before becoming eligible for the applicable assistance, would be able to elect on the child's behalf to receive or continue receiving benefits under the STAR program.