BROWNSVILLE, Texas –– Texas spent $400 million on speech therapy for children under Medicaid last year, up 30 percent from three years ago.
Speech therapists along a 76-mile stretch of Texas Highway 83, from Brownsville to Mission, collect more money for Medicaid speech therapy than nearly anywhere else in the state on a per capita basis.
Last year Medicaid paid out $714 per child in Hidalgo County for speech therapy compared to $105 per child in Dallas County.
Rio Grande Valley outbills big cities in Medicaid speech therapy | kvue.com Austin.