Texas Insight’s Recent Reports
- Update on the Affordable Care Act: Administration officials continue to attempt to hobble the Affordable Care Act (ACA), even though neither the Republican party nor Trump officials offer an alternative or replacement…
- Mental Health Condition and Substance Use Disorder Parity Workgroup: The Workgroup gathered to adopt the Progress Report and Recommendations.
- HHSC: Behavioral Health Advisory Committee: The Committee gathered for their quarterly meeting and received a number of updates on programs, services and subcommittees. These include but are not limited to: 1) HHSC presented information related to the continued shifting of the population at state hospitals from civil to forensic and the community involvement and complications that entails. 2) Rapid Integrated Group Healthcare Team Care (RIGHT Care) was presented by the Meadows Foundation…
Looking Ahead
- August 7, 2018: Value-Based Payment and Quality Improvement Advisory Committee
- August 8, 2018: Opioids & Substance Abuse, Select
- August 9, 2018: Hospital Payment Advisory Committee
- August 9, 2018: Human Services and Public Health Joint Meeting
- August 10, 2018: Nursing Facility Administrators Advisory Committee
State and Federal Healthcare News
Texas
- Lyceum poll: More than one third of Texans have known someone addicted to prescription painkillers
- Arkema officials charged with “recklessly” releasing chemicals amid Harvey flooding
- Poll: Texans think abortion should be legal, but they also want Kavanaugh on Supreme Court
- Texas health officials facing challenges finding Cyclospora source
- With school about to start in Texas, vaccination debate pits parents’ rights against community risk
U.S.
- New Trump administration rule will require hospitals post prices online
- Bipartisan leaders of House panel press drug companies on opioid crisis
- F.D.A Did Not Intervene to Curb Risky Fentanyl Prescriptions
- Shifting Federal Policies Threaten Health Coverage For Trans Americans
- U.S. urges end to lawsuits over ‘abstinence-only’ for pregnant teens
- ‘Short Term’ Health Insurance? Up to 3 Years Under New Trump Policy
- Justice Dept. Investigating Claims that Drug Companies Funded Terrorism in Iraq
- Trump Spurns Medicaid Proposal After Furious White House Debate
- The most shocking thing about the rising U.S. maternal mortality rate is that it’s preventable