How to Enroll as a Medicaid Provider in El Paso
The first thing to understand about Medicaid enrollment in El Paso is that it has almost nothing to do with the Medicare application you may have already filed. Texas runs this through its own agency, the Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership, or TMHP, with its own portal, its own paperwork, and its own timeline that doesn't care what you already know about PECOS, the Medicare online platform. New providers and practices adding a location run into a fairly predictable set of snags along the way: setting up the TMHP account correctly, figuring out where managed care fits in, sending documents that don't get bounced back, getting through screening, and keeping everything active once it's finally approved. Setting Up the TMHP Account Texas runs Medicaid enrollment through the TMHP provider portal instead of the federal PECOS system, and that's usually where things go sideways first. You create an account tied to your Tax ID and NPI, which sounds straightforward, exc...