{"id":34,"date":"2026-09-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/30\/texas-medicaid-waits-are-getting-longer\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:00:00","slug":"texas-medicaid-waits-are-getting-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/30\/texas-medicaid-waits-are-getting-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Medicaid Waits Are Getting Longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/gilberto-2\/texas-medicaid-backlog-remotion-videos-966c\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>From Early-Q1 to Mid-Q3, Texas Medicaid applications awaiting action went from ~1.6K to &gt;210K, while SNAP backlog moved from ~3.7K to &gt;150K.<br \/>\nBy Mid-Q3, Texas Medicaid processing time reached ~70 days from ~50, and applications handled within the 45-day federal standard fell to ~60%.<br \/>\nTexas SNAP wait times stretched from ~20 days in Early-Q1 to &gt;30 in Mid-Q3, as new federal mandates added case reviews, training, and tech work.<br \/>\nBecause Texas uses one application for Medicaid and SNAP, changes in either program can strain the same worker pool and a manual-heavy system.<br \/>\nAdvocates said Texas may need faster relief through community partnerships or in-person enrollment events, because major technology upgrades were expected to take years.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Early-Q1 to Mid-Q3, Texas Medicaid applications awaiting action went from ~1.6K to &gt;210K, while SNAP backlog moved from ~3.7K to &gt;150K. By Mid-Q3, Texas Medicaid processing time reached ~70 days from ~50, and applications handled within the 45-day federal standard fell to ~60%. Texas SNAP wait times stretched from ~20 days in Early-Q1 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":35,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}