Texas Insight’s Recent Reports
Texas e-Health. At their last meeting, in addition to receiving the committee report that will be advanced to the Executive Commissioner for consideration, the e-Health Advisory Committee (eHAC) heard information on:
- Possible incentive payments for providers;
- The telemedicine pilot and a general update on telemedicine, telehealth and telemonitoring; and
- The Patient Unified Lookup System for Emergencies (PULSE). Pulse was developed by the State of California with the support of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. It enables authorized emergency responders to query for and view patient records with a focus on disaster response situations.
Read Texas Insight’s coverage of the meeting here.
Looking Ahead
December 19, 2018: Proposed amendments to 40 Tex. Admin. Code, Chapter 108, Division for Early Childhood Intervention Services Rules
State and Federal Healthcare News
Texas
- CPS appeals to avoid paying $127K sanction after wrongful removal
- Here’s how Fort Worth and Texas plan to chip away at the doctor shortage
- Eight steps Texas can take to fix its managed-care mess
- Despite law to force clarity, confusion over free-standing ERs persists
- Texas needs government money to make telemedicine happen
- Meth playing bigger role in US drug overdose crisis
- Patient confusion is business model for free-standing emergency rooms
- Texas will have to develop health plan for future of delivery system reform efforts
United States
- Warren: Trump admin ‘doing everything they can’ to undermine health care coverage
- Cuomo to Push Legalizing Recreational Marijuana in New York by Early 2019
- Three in 10 delaying medical treatment due to costs: Gallup
- Teen Vaping Soared In 2018
- Obama urges people to sign up for health insurance after ruling striking down law
- Trump Officials Say Drug Prices Are Inflated. So Are Some of Their Claims on a Solution.
- Medical Detectives: The Last Hope For Families Coping With Rare Diseases
- What the Obamacare Court Ruling Means for Open Enrollment
- In Weaponized Courts, Judge Who Halted Affordable Care Act Is a Conservative Favorite
- Health Law Could Be Hard to Knock Down Despite Judge’s Ruling
- Ruling Striking Down Obamacare Moves Health Debate to Center Stage
- Authorities Uncover $8 Million-a-Week Drug Operation in Pennsylvania
- Despair, Love and Loss: A Journey Inside West Virginia’s Opioid Crisis
- N.I.H. to Scrutinize Private Donations to Scientific Research Projects