Texas Insight provides timely reporting of healthcare issues and events as they occur within the legislative and regulatory branches of Texas state government.
HHSC: Hospital Payment Advisory Committee. The Committee gathered to hear a Behavioral Health Hospitals update; discuss Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Regulation; discuss Uncompensated Care (UC)/Disproportionate Share Hospital redistribution; discuss the Uniform Hospital Rate Increase Program, Delivery System Reform Incentive Program, and Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital Program; discuss the Public health emergency/Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (eFMAP) extension; review Medicaid supplemental payment issues; and more. Read the full report.
HHSC: Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Advisory Council. The Council gathered to hear updates on the PCIAC new member appointment process, the supportive palliative care pilot study, Texas palliative care data, the Continuing Education Event Topic Discussion; hear 2020 Workgroup recommendations; discuss action items and topics for staff or member follow-up; and more. Read the full report.
August 13, 2020
- This meeting will be webcast: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Incentive Study Workgroup Agenda
- This meeting will be webcast: Medical Care Advisory Committee (MCAC) Agenda
Texas
- Local health authority resigns in Texas border county battered by coronavirus
- Governor Abbott Appoints Brock to Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome Advisory Council
- Coronavirus outbreak at Houston-area nursing home kills 17 residents
- Virus resurgence deflates Texas economic rebound, Dallas Fed says
- Coronavirus testing in Texas plummets as schools prepare to reopen
- The coronavirus means San Antonio parents have to make choices this fall and some have more options than others
- ICE is making sure migrant kids don’t have COVID-19, then expelling them to “prevent the spread” of COVID-19
- Gov. Greg Abbott says state will categorize same results from types of COVID-19 tests differently
- Here’s how the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded in Texas since March
U.S.
- Most states facing shortage of ICU doctors: research
- In the Wake of Covid-19 Lockdowns, a Troubling Surge in Homicides
- White House, congressional Democrats go fourth day without coronavirus talks
- Study: Youths who vape, smoke over 5 times more likely to contract coronavirus
- ‘A Smoking Gun’: Infectious Coronavirus Retrieved From Hospital Air
- Deadline extended for U.S. farmers seeking federal aid from COVID-19 damage
- Study shows most homemade masks help slow coronavirus droplets
- Children Are Not Immune
- Contact Tracers In Massachusetts Order Milk And Help With Rent. Here’s Why
- More than 800 required to quarantine in Georgia school district that doesn’t require masks
- For Doctors of Color, Microaggressions Are All Too Familiar
- Trump’s COVID orders too little, too late to help U.S. economy, experts say
- Half of Americans in new poll say they know someone who has tested positive for COVID-19
- Trump Considers Banning Re-entry by Citizens Who May Have Coronavirus
- U.S. will ‘bond out’ to cover Social Security, Medicare gaps under Trump’s tax order: Kudlow
- Dozens of state, local health leaders fired or resigned amid pandemic: report
- E.P.A. to Lift Obama-Era Controls on Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas