Texas Insight’s Recent Reports
HHSC Executive Council. The Council gathered to discuss Executive Council membership, the HHSC Business Plan, HHSC Cost Containment, proposed rules, and advisory committee recommendations. Follow this link for the full report.
HHSC: Electronic Visit Verification Update. Electronic Visit Verification is a computer-based system that electronically verifies the occurrence of authorized personal attendant service visits by electronically documenting the precise time a service delivery visit begins and ends. The EVV program was implemented to replace paper-based attendant timesheets. Texas requires EVV for certain Medicaid funded home and community-based services provided through the Health and Human Services Commission and health plans. Follow this link for the full report.
HHSC: Aging Texas Well Advisory Committee. The Committee gathered to review and adopt bylaws amendments, hear a presentation on the work of the Texas Aging and Longevity Center, hear division reports, discuss committee operations, and take any public comment. Follow this link for the full report.
HHSC: State Medicaid Managed Care Advisory Committee. The Committee gathered to discuss SMMCAC priorities, establish subcommittees, hear Advisory committee chair updates on current committee work, hear HHSC updates, discuss Rider 32 implementation, and more. Follow this link for the full report.
Looking Ahead
August 27, 2019: Proposed Nursing Facility Interim Rates and Settlement Payment Rates for State Veterans Homes
State and Federal Health Care News
Texas
- Tx Right to Life: Austin City Council Considers Spending Taxpayer Dollars On Abortion
- Gov Abbott Holds Ceremonial Bill Signing Establishing College Of Medicine At UH
- Dallas County and agencies are ramping up efforts to end the HIV epidemic by 2030. Can it be done?
- Canceled paid time off may be hard to recover in Texas
- Texas Tech telemedicine improves teens’ mental health in 24 school districts
- Thousands of D-FW veterans need better care. There is a plan to get it for them
- Infant brain expert says early years are critical for mental health
U.S.
- The $6 Million Drug Claim
- Planned Parenthood, ACLU ask judge to block Missouri abortion ban
- In Rural Utah, Preventing Suicide Means Meeting Gun Owners Where They Are
- 4 Will Be Charged in Florida Nursing Home Deaths After Hurricane Irma, Lawyers Say
- Praise, Don’t Tease, And Other Tips To Help Kids With Their Weight
- Sanders, Warren back major shift to fight drug overdoses
- First Death in a Spate of Vaping Sicknesses Reported by Health Officials
- U.S. records 12 new cases of measles, raising year’s total to 1,215
- Critics fear widespread damage from Trump ‘public charge’ rule
- Opioid Treatment Is Used Vastly More in States That Expanded Medicaid
- Juul leaves vaping industry group amid dispute over FDA lawsuit
- Democrat Buttigieg targets mental illness, addiction in new plan
- U.S. Puts Sanctions on Chinese Nationals Over Fentanyl Trafficking
- Study finds about 1 in 7 people with diabetes ration medicine due to cost
- Their Mothers Chose Donor Sperm. The Doctors Used Their Own.
- Trump administration appeals drug price disclosure ruling
- Former V.A. Doctor Charged in Deaths of 3 Veterans