Texas Medicaid (TMHP) prior authorization fax numbers (2026)

The Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership (TMHP) fax number for Texas Medicaid fee-for-service ambulance prior authorization, including out-of-state transfers, is 512-514-4205. TMHP prints its numbers by program: 512-514-4209 for home health and durable medical equipment, 512-514-4212 for CCP. Managed care members go to their plan instead.

What is the TMHP prior authorization fax number?

TMHP prints a separate prior authorization fax number for each Texas Medicaid fee-for-service program, such as 512-514-4205 for ambulance and 833-912-1129 for radiology. Home health services use 512-514-4209, and section 5.5.3 of the Texas Medicaid Provider Procedures Manual (TMPPM) lists those services as skilled nursing and home health aide visits, PT/OT, durable medical equipment (DME) and expendable medical supplies. CCP uses 512-514-4212, and mental health and substance use disorder requests use 512-514-4211.

Which TMHP fax number goes with which program?

Each TMHP fax number belongs to one Texas Medicaid fee-for-service program, and the table pairs every number with the program name TMHP uses and the TMHP form that prints the same number.

Does a Texas Medicaid request go to TMHP or to the managed care plan?

A Texas Medicaid request goes to TMHP when the member is in fee-for-service, and to the member's plan when the member is enrolled in a STAR, STAR+PLUS, STAR Kids or STAR Health plan. The numbers in the table come from TMHP's own fee-for-service manual section and TMHP's forms, so a managed care member's request uses the fax number on the plan's own provider page.

TMHP's Medicaid Managed Care Handbook, named in the footer, covers the managed care programs. Commercial plans and Medicare plans in Texas fall outside this page.

What do you send with a TMHP prior authorization fax?

A TMHP prior authorization fax carries the form for its program where TMHP publishes one, and each form below prints the fax number it goes to.

• F00012: CCP Prior Authorization Request Form
• F00030: Home Health Services (Title XIX) DME/Medical Supplies Prescribing Provider Order Form
• F00087: Special Medical Prior Authorization (SMPA) Request Form
• F00045: Non-emergency Ambulance Prior Authorization Request, for Texas Medicaid and CSHCN
• F00001: Outpatient Withdrawal Management Authorization Request Form
• F00046: Obstetric Ultrasound Prior Authorization Request Form

The ambulance, outpatient withdrawal management and obstetric ultrasound forms carry 2021 revision dates (08/20/2021, 07/09/2021 and 07/01/2021), so the October 2026 TMPPM is the check on their numbers. Where a cover sheet goes on top, what a HIPAA fax cover sheet needs lists what it carries and what stays off it. The sending steps, from the first page to the delivery record, are in the prior authorization fax guide.

Does TMHP still take prior authorization requests by fax?

TMHP still takes Texas Medicaid fee-for-service prior authorization requests by fax: the October 2026 TMPPM lists a fax number for each program, and each program's form says to submit by fax to that number, as form F00012 does with "To submit by fax, send to 512-514-4212." For any route other than fax, check the Fee-for-Service Prior Authorizations section of the same manual, named in the footer.

How do you fax TMHP from a HIPAA fax account?

A home health agency, supplier or practice can fax TMHP's program form without a fax machine: a HIPAA fax account sends it from a browser or an email to the number on the form. Fax Pigeon accepts the form as a PDF, a phone photo or a Word, Excel or PowerPoint file, with or without a cover sheet. Each fax TMHP receives gets delivery proof for the authorization file, and replies faxed to a paid plan's own number arrive in one inbox the whole team shares, with no charge per person.

Every plan comes with a BAA signed at signup, and the BAA can be read at faxpigeon.com/baa before you pay. The Basic plan costs $4.99 a month billed annually for 200 pages, sent plus received.

What if the TMHP fax fails or the number changes?

Before a TMHP fax with no delivery proof goes out again, check its number against the program's line in the Fee-for-Service Prior Authorizations section of the October 2026 TMPPM, named in the footer.

The obstetric ultrasound number, 512-302-5039, comes from form F00046, revised 07/01/2021, and from no TMPPM line on this page, so it is the first number to confirm in the current manual. For any other Texas Medicaid program, find the program in the TMPPM, match the form's printed number to the manual's, and send a managed care member's request to the member's plan.

* Fax numbers verified October 23, 2026, on Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership (TMHP)'s own TMPPM Vol. 1 Section 5 Fee-for-Service Prior Authorizations, October 2026 (http://www.tmhp.com/sites/default/files/file-library/resources/provider-manuals/tmppm/pdf-chapters/2026/2026-10-october/1_05_prior_authorization.pdf) and TMPPM Medicaid Managed Care Handbook, October 2026 (http://www.tmhp.com/sites/default/files/file-library/resources/provider-manuals/tmppm/pdf-chapters/2026/2026-10-october/2_12_medicaid_managed_care.pdf).