Non-Emergency Visits Costing North Texas Taxpayers Millions

NORTH TEXAS (CBS11) – Acne, bad breath and ingrown nails: all seem like relatively minor health issues. But a Consumer Justice investigation found millions of taxpayer dollars paying for Medicaid patients to use the emergency room for non-emergency medical attention.
Data from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission showed Medicaid patients using ERs in Collin, Dallas, Denton and Tarrant County emergency rooms for just about any health problem.
Thousands of people checked in for rou