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(Austin, TX) – As the 2020 Open Enrollment Period opens Friday, Nov. 1, Central Health and Sendero Health Plans, its nonprofit health maintenance organization (HMO), are expanding a program that pays health insurance premiums for Travis County residents with complex medical needs. Under the premium assistance program, Central Health pays insurance premiums for a select […]

New Farmshare Austin location offers fresh for less groceries at Barbara Jordan Elementary School (Austin, TX) – Colony Park welcomes the neighborhood’s first-ever mobile market, which opened Friday, Oct. 11. The market will sell affordable, fresh local and Texas produce every Friday next to Central Health’s mobile clinic located at Barbara Jordan Elementary. Farmshare Austin […]

(Austin) – Under a 9-month old partnership between Central Health and Lyft, missed doctor’s appointments are down by one-fourth, and monthly visits by chronically-ill patients have doubled. Central Health launched the transportation pilot in January 2019 to help patients get to medical appointments. In nine months, the program has provided 2,400 free Lyft rides to […]

(Austin) – The Central Health Board of Managers voted Wednesday to set the tax rate for Fiscal Year 2020 at 6.9% over the “no-new-revenue” – or effective – tax rate, which will generate $214.9 million in property taxes to pay for health care delivery for Travis County residents with low income. For a Travis County […]

Download the final budget (pdf) (Austin) – Central Health plans to spend 12.4% more on health care for people with low income in Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 compared to this year, according to the budget approved Sept. 18 by the healthcare district’s Board of Managers. The $290.8 million FY20 budget and tax rate must be […]

The Travis County Healthcare District d/b/a Central Health conducted public hearings on September 11, 2019, and September 18, 2019, on a proposal to increase the total tax revenues of the Travis County Healthcare District d/b/a Central Health from properties on the tax roll in the preceding year by 6.9 percent (percentage by which proposed tax […]

WHAT: Central Health public hearing about the FY2020 property tax rate. WHEN/WHERE: 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 11, at Central Health, 1111 E. Cesar Chavez St., Austin, TX 78702. (Austin) – Central Health is hosting the first of two public hearings on the Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 proposed property tax rate at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. […]

The Travis County Healthcare District d/b/a Central Health will hold two public hearings on a proposal to increase total tax revenues from properties on the tax roll in the preceding tax year by 6.9 percent (percentage by which proposed tax rate exceeds lower of rollback tax rate or effective tax rate calculated under Tax Code […]

Proposed Budget Increases Health Care Delivery Spending for Growing Low Income Population (Austin) – The Central Health Board of Managers voted Wednesday to set the maximum tax rate for Fiscal Year 2020 at 6.9% over the No New Revenue tax rate, which will generate $214.9 million in property taxes to pay for health care services […]

AUSTIN, Texas — Demolition will begin soon of a vacant professional office building near the former University Medical Center Brackenridge — a major milestone in the long-term redevelopment of Central Health’s downtown property that will leverage a partnership with The University of Texas at Austin to create new revenue for local health care needs. The 2033 Higher Education Development […]