Texas Insight’s Recent Reports
HHSC: Proposed Nursing Facility Interim Rates and Settlement Payment Rates for State Veterans Homes. The Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) conducted a public hearing on August 27, 2019 to receive comments on proposed Interim Rates and 2018 Settlement Payment Rates for State Veterans Homes Nursing Facilities. Find the full report here.
HHSC: The Mental Health Condition and Substance Use Disorder Parity Workgroup. The Workgroup gathered to discuss reimbursement of Advisory Committee travel expenses, hear a recap of the 86th Legislature, Regular Session, impacting parity, discuss the Mental Health Condition and Substance Use Disorder Parity Workgroup Parity Statewide Strategic Plan, and more. Follow this link for the full report.
State and Federal Healthcare News
Texas
- For those with autism and other disabilities, new law could prevent miscommunication with police
- 820 new Texas laws go into effect in September. Here are some that might affect you.
- Nix Health cutting hundreds of jobs, closing facility as it scales back operations in San Antonio
US
- The Mysterious Vaping Illness That’s ‘Becoming an Epidemic’
- CDC reports 900 mumps cases in migrant detention facilities over past year
- Don’t Use Bootleg or Street Vaping Products, C.D.C. Warns
- Health officials warn New Jersey, Michigan, Massachusetts residents over mosquito-borne virus
- Sick Migrants Undergoing Lifesaving Care Can Now Be Deported
- WHO: Three times more measles cases reported than last year
- Surgeon General Warns Pregnant Women and Teenagers Not to Smoke or Vape Marijuana
- Advocates sue in attempt to speed up Nebraska Medicaid expansion
- Sacklers Would Give Up Ownership of Purdue Pharma Under Settlement Proposal
- CDC: US on verge of losing measles elimination status
- Johnson & Johnson’s Brand Falters Over Its Role in the Opioid Crisis
- Bernie Sanders proposes canceling $81 billion U.S. medical debt
- Heat Deaths Jump in Southwest United States, Puzzling Officials
- Oklahoma hospital used dirty gastroscopes on almost 1,000 patients; no infections reported