Leaders in Health and Human Services Reporting
Texas Insight’s Recent Reports Transition Legislative Oversight Committee: Health and Human Services: Since 2015, the Health and Human Services (HHS) system has undergone extensive changes to its organizational structure in…
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This posting provides an overview of the national and state dimensions of Medicaid fraud, as well as efforts to detect and eliminate these crimes. The piece will look closely at…
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The committee gathered for their final interim meeting to consider the following interim charges and bill implementation update:
The Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force studies maternal mortality and morbidity by studying and reviewing cases of pregnancy-related deaths and trends in severe maternal morbidity, determining the feasibility of…
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The Senate Finance Committee met to hear invited testimony only on the following interim charge related to health and human services: Monitor the implementation of the following funding initiative: Health Care Costs Across State Agencies - Monitor coordination efforts among state agencies to improve health care and reduce costs pursuant to Article IX, Section 10.06 and Section 10.07.
The Committee met on two other charges as well that are not related to health and human services directly and as such are not reported.
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This report addresses HHSC only and does not include the Office of the Inspector General nor does it include the Texas Civil Commitment Office. Legislative Appropriations Request for Fiscal Years…
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Texas Insight’s Recent Reports 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…
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The Transition Legislative Oversight Committee met to hear invited testimony only.
The Chair stated that they are in receipt of the recommendations they requested in the report submitted by HHSC.
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Hank Whitman, Commissioner and David Kinsey, CFO made the presentation. The Department of Family and Protective Services is requesting funding above the FY 2020-21 baseline for eight groups of exceptional…
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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…
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