Texas Insight’s Recent Reports
House and Senate Appropriations: Article II. Both the House and the Senate provide an All Funds Health and Human Services agencies total of $84.8 billion, an increase of $1.2 billion from the 2018–19 biennium. General Revenue Funds and General Revenue-Dedicated Funds total $34.1 billion, a decrease of $1.2 billion from the 2018–19 biennium. Follow this link to read the rest of the comparison between the House and Senate budgets.
Looking Ahead
January 22, 2019: Value-Based Payment and Quality Improvement Advisory Committee
January 22, 2019: Texas Autism Council
January 23, 2019: Joint Committee on Access and Forensic Services
January 23, 2019: Newborn Screening Advisory Committee Meeting
January 24, 2019: Intellectual and Developmental Disability System Redesign Advisory Committee
January 24, 2019: Texas Diabetes Council
January 25, 2019: Drug Utilization Review Board
January 25, 2019: Workgroup on Mental Health Access for First Responders
State and Federal Healthcare News
Texas
- Texas House, Senate budget plans tens of millions apart on prisoner health care
- Federal appeals court lifts order blocking Texas from kicking Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid
- State health agency ordered to reimburse home health providers
- UTHealth plans to build new mental health hospital
- Bucy, III: Files Legislation to Expand Medicaid in Texas
- FEMA grants $13.6M to TexasHealth and Human Services
- Bills aim to study, prevent childhood trauma in Texas
- State health officials call on legislators for funds to fight maternal deaths, tuberculosis
U.S.
- Insulin costs doubled over five-year period: study
- Trump vows to veto bills expanding abortion rights in video address to March for Life
- Hospitals Stopped Readmitting Medicare Patients So Often. Was That a Good Thing?
- HHS secretary, Senate Finance Republicans talk drug pricing
- Study Links Drug Maker Gifts for Doctors to More Overdose Deaths
- Trump administration sued over new Kentucky Medicaid work requirements
- F.D.A. Panel Splits on Whether to Approve New Diabetes Drug
- Does Marijuana Use Cause Schizophrenia?
- Sacklers Directed Efforts to Mislead Public About OxyContin, New Documents Indicate