Texas Covered Entities

In Texas, Ascension has served Central Texas communities for more than 120 years. Today, Ascension Texas includes 13 hospitals and 222 sites of care, employing 16,000 associates across Central Texas. Ascension Texas operates Ascension Providence and Ascension Seton, which includes Dell Children’s Medical Center, the region’s only comprehensive children’s hospital and pediatric Level I trauma center, and Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas, the region’s only Level I trauma center for adults. 

Ascension Texas has participated in the 340B program for more than 15 years. Its participating hospitals are the first places those most in need turn for treatment. In fact, Ascension Texas hospitals serve as safety net hospitals and, combined, see more uninsured patients than any other hospital in Central Texas.

Approximately 30-35% of people who seek care from Ascension Texas are uninsured, underinsured or enrolled in Medicaid coverage. As the region's largest nonprofit healthcare organization, Ascension Texas has provided over $5.6 billion in community benefits over the last ten years. The 340B program provided Ascension Texas $36 million in savings in FY2024 which allowed the organization to continue providing services to the poor and vulnerable patients at no charge.

Its 340B benefits have helped the health system fund primary and specialty care clinics that serve those who are poor and vulnerable in urban and rural communities. In addition, these benefits help provide clinical and ambulatory pharmacy services, financial assistance to patients who are unable to afford their prescriptions and oncology services, and offset the cost of providing free medical care for the ever-increasing number of uninsured and underinsured patients.

Moreover, Ascension Texas’ benefits allow the system to reach more eligible patients within the community through different programs, including mobile primary care units in rural areas and Medical Missions.

Programs enhanced by 340B benefits:

• Medication affordability program: provides needed medications to uninsured and impoverished patients with both free and reduced-cost medications.
• Charitable pharmacies: operates four Dispensary of Hope locations serving uninsured populations with free medication across the state.
• Primary and specialty care clinics: provides services to those who are poor and vulnerable in urban and rural communities.
• Medical Mission at Home: historically held at least annually at multiple locations across the state, the event provides free medical, vision and dental services to those in need.

Learn more about Ascension Texas’ Community Benefit.