Texas Insight’s Recent Reports
House Appropriations Committee: Article II Mark-Up – HHSC
- Decisions as of February 26, 2019
- Decisions as of February 28, 2019
House Appropriations Committee: Article II Mark-Up – DSHS, DFPS
- Decisions as of February 27, 2019
- Decisions as of February 28, 2019
Department of Family and Protective Services: Medicaid Benefits. The Committee gathered to discuss several bills; this report focuses on HB 72 by White | et al., Relating to the continuation of Medicaid benefits provided to certain children adopted from the conservatorship of the DFPS. Read the full report here.
Medicaid Managed Care. The State Medicaid Managed Care Advisory Committee (SMMCAC) gathered to hear an update on the 2018 SMMCAC annual report to the Executive Commissioner, and to discuss the Proposal to utilize the SMMCAC as a forum for ongoing stakeholder engagement with Texas Medicaid. Read the full report here.
Looking Ahead
March 4, 2019: House Committee on Appropriations – S/C on Article II
March 5, 2019: Senate Committee on Health and Human Services
March 6, 2019: House Committee on Public Health
March 7, 2019: House Committee on Appropriations – Article II
State and Federal Healthcare News
Texas
- Consternation among stakeholders as a new version emerges of a ban on government-mandated paid sick leave
- Chairs Hancock and Martinez Fischer announce push for reform to surprise medical billing, drawing fire from the docs
- Texans don’t see eye-to-eye on climate, health care or taxes, UT/TT Poll finds
- Anti-abortion fetal heartbeat bill heads to Texas House Public Health Committee
- Nearly 200 people in Texas detention facilities have contracted mumps
- As she takes the gavel at Public Health, Mrs. T confronts mental health funding head on
- Will Texas decriminalize marijuana this year? There is growing support.
U.S.
- FDA Tightening Regulatory Requirements For Some Medical Devices
- Eli Lilly Will Sell Half-Price Version of Humalog, Its Popular Insulin
- Top White House official warns hospitals on surprise medical bills
- Studies of Deadly Flu Virus, Once Banned, Are Set to Resume
- UN report says vaccine hesitancy helped spark worldwide spike in measles cases last year
- As Over 100 House Democrats Embrace ‘Medicare for All,’ a Party Division Appears
- Senators tell FDA to speed up approvals of generic insulin
- Drug Makers Try to Justify Prescription Prices to Senators at Hearing