Texas Insight’s Recent Reports
- HHSC: Implementation of Peer Support services as a Medicaid Benefit: The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) held a public hearing to update the public on the implementation of Peer Support Services as a Medicaid Benefit. House Bill 1486, 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, directed the HHSC to add peer support services as a Medicaid benefit. As required by the bill, a stakeholder workgroup provided input on Medicaid rules defining requirements for training, certification, scope of services, and supervision of peer specialists. HHSC used this meeting to take public comment and review the bill, the stakeholder’s work, and the draft rules.
- HHSC: Council on Consumer Direction: The purpose of the Council is to advise HHSC on the development, implementation, expansion, and delivery of services through consumer direction, in all programs offering long-term services and supports that enhance a consumer’s ability to have freedom and exercise control and authority over the consumer’s choices, regardless of age or disability. Visit the Consumer Directed Services (CDS) homepage for more information about the CDS option.
Looking Ahead
June 18, 2018: State Medicaid Managed Care Advisory Committee
State and Federal Healthcare News
Texas
- Homelessness, limited access to medical care among top issues affecting LGBTQ communities in Texas
- Texas abortion rights groups sue in an effort to strike down years of abortion-related state laws
- “Blood Will Tell” investigation, death row with disabilities
- Dallas to launch campaign to slow down city’s teen pregnancy crisis
- Texas lags in vaccination rates for human papillomavirus
- Why Texas’ new effort to fight maternal mortality with checklists is a smart idea
- Texas Legislature cries foul over Medicaid tragedies but fails to admit its own role
- Patients wait in limbo as St. Luke’s heart transplant program reviews its problems
U.S.
- Trump’s Plan to Lower Drug Prices Tests Limits of the Law
- American Academy of Pediatrics president: Trump family separation policy is ‘child abuse’
- Ketamine Used to Subdue Dozens at Request of Minneapolis Police, Report Says
- WHO classifies compulsive video game playing as a mental health condition
- Salmonella Outbreaks Affect Kellogg’s Honey Smacks Cereal and Cut Fruit
- Congress tackles mounting opioid epidemic
- Major Study of Drinking Will be Shut Down
- Poll: 14 percent of high school students admit to misusing opioids
- Pregnancy Discrimination is Rampant Inside America’s Biggest Companies
- Sex and Drugs Decline Among Teens, but Depression and Suicidal Thoughts Grow
- Abortion provider files new suit against Texas restrictions
- A ‘Sick Joke’: Democrats Attack Health Secretary on Pre-existing Conditions