Texas Insight’s Recent Reports
- DFPS Legislative Appropriations Request: The Department of Family and Protective Services’ (DFPS) mission is “promote safe and healthy families and protect children and vulnerable adults from abuse, neglect, and exploitation.” The baseline request for FY 2020-21 totals $4.2 billion in All Funds ($2.4 billion in state funds). This request represents a net increase of $53.8 million in All Funds ($17.7 million in state funds), or 1.3 percent increase compared to projected 2018-19 expenditures. Demand for general revenue (GR) decreased by $14.5 million in the FY 2020-21 biennium across several strategies based on a more favorable Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP) rate.
- HHSC Legislative Appropriations Request: “HHSC’s 2020-21 funding request is the culmination of months of evaluation on how we can do more with less. We viewed each request through the prism of two questions: Is this good for Texas? Is this good for our clients? These tough decisions led us to request funding for a range of programs and to group these requests thematically. We also solicited and considered stakeholder feedback when determining which exceptional funding requests to include in our 2020-21 Legislative Appropriation Request. This feedback is summarized and included in the HHS System’s Consolidated Budget, to be published in October 2018. The sections of this administrator statement that follow highlight some of the agency’s greatest needs for the upcoming 2020-21 biennium.”
Looking Ahead
- September 10, 2018: Department of State Health Services
- September 11, 2018: Texas Council on Consumer Direction
- September 11, 2018: Senate Finance – Healthcare Costs Across State Agencies
- September 12, 2018: Senate Committee on Health and Human Services
- September 12, 2018: State Medicaid Managed Care Advisory Committee
- September 12, 2018: Health and Human Services Transition Legislative Oversight Committee
- September 13, 2018: House Committee on Public Health
- September 14, 2018: Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force
- September 14, 2018: Department of Family and Protective Services
State and Federal Healthcare News
Texas
- Texas Fetal Burial Law Struck Down in Another Blow to Abortion Restrictions
- Texas Reps. Tracy King and Richard Peña Raymond talk health care, school finance, border security
- Texas asks a federal judge to block Obamacare nationwide
- Interim HHSC director grilled at State Affairs hearing about DNR bill rule delay
- TRS cuts health care liability by $300M with renegotiated pharmacy contract
- House Public Ed recommends more funding, stronger partnerships for mental health intervention teams
U.S.
- The Remedy For Surprise Medical Bills May Lie In Stitching Up Federal Law
- Manchin shoots anti-ObamaCare lawsuit with a gun in new ad
- Most Doctors are Ill-Equipped to Deal with the Opioid Epidemic. Few Medical Schools Teach Addiction.
- Abortion Opposition Once Defined Marsha Blackburn. But Not in Her Senate Race.
- MSK Cancer Center Orders Staff to ‘Do a Better Job’ of Disclosing Industry Ties
- Blue Cross of Tennessee to Stop Covering OxyContin in Effort to Fight Opioid Crisis
- Medicaid Expansion Finds Grass-Roots Support in Conservative Utah
- Manchin Counts on Health Care to Stave Off Republican Tide in West Virginia
- Science Does Not Support Claims That Contraceptives Are ‘Abortion-Inducing’
- The E.P.A.’s Review of Mercury Rules Could Remake Its Methods for Valuing Human Life and Health
- The Future of Abortion Under a New Supreme Court? Look to Arkansas
- Kavanaugh Hearings Day 3: ‘Secret’ Documents, Robert Mueller and Abortion
- Legal Case to Smash Obamacare Hands the Democrats a Hammer
- A Rural Town Banded Together to Open a Hospital. Its Foe? A Larger Hospital.
- Planned Parenthood Launches ‘Largest Ground Game’ In its History