Texas Insight’s Recent Reports
Department of State Health Services: Fiscal Size-Up: DSHS works to improve the health, safety and well-being of Texans through good stewardship of public resources and a focus on core public health functions. Due to the agency’s shift under Transformation per Senate Bill 200 (84 R) to focus solely on public health functions and to move many programs and functions to other agencies, all funds spending in 2018-19 is considerably smaller (73% less) than that expended and budgeted in 2016-17.
HHSC: Texas Brain Injury Advisory Council: The meeting was convened for the sole purpose of voting on the Report and recommendations (with revisions) from the previous meeting.
Looking Ahead
- December 4, 2018
- December 5, 2018
- December 6, 2018
State and Federal Healthcare News
Texas
- House committee says Texas faces “significant challenges” in curbing substance abuse
- Texas has the highest number of uninsured kids in America, report finds
- Report: Houston-based pharmacy is supplier of state’s execution drugs
- Two nurses died of overdoses inside a Dallas hospital. What went wrong?
- Austin police form task force to address mental health audit
US
- The Placenta, an Afterthought No Longer
- Kids With Concussions Can Phase In Exercise, Screen Time Sooner Than Before
- Trump Administration Peppers Inboxes With Plugs for Private Medicare Plans
- Medicare To Cut Payments To Nursing Homes Whose Patients End Up Back In The Hospital
- Federal Subsidies Could Expand to Health Programs that Violate Obamacare
- Ocasio-Cortez says ‘death panels’ exist in private health insurance market
- ‘The Numbers Are So Staggering.’ Overdose Deaths Set a Record Last Year
- Senators urge vote on health insurance tax delay during lame-duck
- Jail Ordered to Give Inmate Methadone for Opioid Addiction in Far-Reaching Ruling
- GOP lawmakers air concerns with Trump drug pricing move in meeting with health chief
- Study Warns of Cascading Health Risks From the Changing Climate