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By Kera News – April 15, 2026

Baylor Scott & White Health Plan will stop providing Medicaid and ACA Marketplace coverage in Texas

The Baylor Scott & White Health Plan will stop offering Texas Medicaid and individual marketplace health insurance plans this year, the provider announced Tuesday.

The Dallas-based health plan will leave the Texas Medicaid Managed Care Program at the end of August, through which about 125,000 people are enrolled in Medicaid.

The plan will then stop offering marketplace plans created under the Affordable Care Act at the end of the year. That will affect another 100,000 people in Texas.

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