{"id":444276,"date":"2026-09-22T18:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T18:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444276\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T18:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T18:24:08","slug":"san-antonio-mayor-jones-calls-on-gov-abbott-to-address-medicaid-application-backlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444276\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio Mayor Jones calls on Gov. Abbott to address Medicaid application backlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones is calling on Gov. Greg Abbott to dedicate state resources to a backlog of Medicaid applications awaiting processing in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter sent on Monday, Jones said recent news reports indicated more than 210,000 Texans were waiting for their Medicaid applications to be processed as of late August.<\/p>\n<p>Medicaid serves as a critical lifeline for some of our most vulnerable neighbors, and we simply cannot allow them to needlessly go without critical benefits and assistance during this affordability crisis,\u201d Jones wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor asked Abbott to \u201cimmediately dedicate resources\u201d to address the backlog and offered assistance from her office.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Health and Human Services guidelines generally require Medicaid eligibility decisions within 45 days, although some applications involving disability determinations can take up to 90 days.<\/p>\n<p>Jones did not outline specific resources she wants the state to dedicate to reducing the backlog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones is calling on Gov. Greg Abbott to dedicate state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-444276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}