HHSC Rolls Out the New Your Texas Benefits Medicaid Card

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) is introducing a new system that uses digital technology to streamline the Medicaid eligibility verification process and provides access to Medicaid health history. The two main elements of the system are: 

• The Your Texas Benefits Medicaid card, which replaces the paper Medicaid ID letter (Form 3087) that clients receive in the mail monthly.
• A website for Medicaid providers that supplies up-to-date information on a patient’s eligibility and history of services and treatments paid by Medicaid.

HHSC will begin mailing the Your Texas Benefit Medicaid cards to Texans covered by Medicaid in August. Medicaid clients can begin using the cards immediately. The new plastic card will be the client’s everyday Medicaid card.

Medicaid providers can begin using www.YourTexasBenefitsCard.com to verify patient’s Medicaid eligibility. Providers can opt to purchase equipment, such as a card reader, to use the card’s magnetic stripe that contains the client’s Medicaid ID number. Providers also can continue verifying eligibility through existing channels, which do not require the purchase of any additional equipment.

The new online system will not change the way pharmacies get out‐patient pharmacy eligibility data and prescription benefits. Pharmacies should use one of the existing Vendor Drug eligibility verification tools.