Texas Insight’s Recent Reports
HB1 Conference Committee
- Summary: Health and Human Services Commission – Medicaid Decisions. The Conference Committee for HB1 released their decisions for Medicaid and the greater Health and Human Services Commission. Only items that were in disagreement between the two houses are included. The issues decided by the Conference Committee are presented in this document. Find the full report here.
- HHS Issue Docket Decisions | HHSC and Article II Special Provisions here.
Senate Committee on Business and Commerce. The Committee gathered to consider the following legislation (select bills requested by TXI customers): HB 1584 as engrossed by Thompson | SP: Buckingham. relating to health benefit plan coverage of prescription drugs for stage-four advanced, metastatic cancer; HB 2536 as engrossed by Oliverson | SP: Hancock, relating to transparency related to drug costs; HB 2817 as engrossed by Lucio III | SP: Hughes, relating to the contractual relationship between a pharmacist or pharmacy and a health benefit plan issuer or pharmacy benefit manager; and HB 4390 as engrossed by Capriglione | SP: Nelson, relating to the privacy of personal identifying information and the creation of the Texas Privacy Protection Advisory Council. Find the full report here.
Senate Committee on Health and Human Services. The Committee gathered to consider the following: HB 284 Perez | et al. | SP: Powell – Relating to disclosure requirements of certain facilities that provide care for persons with Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders; HB 823 Davis, Yvonne | et al. |SP: Johnson – Relating to an expedited on-site health inspection process for assisted living facility license applicants; HB 1111 Davis, Sarah | et al. | SP: Kolkhorst – Relating to maternal and newborn health care; HB 1112 Davis, Sarah | et al. | SP: Kolkhorst – Relating to the removal of signs indicating that a freestanding emergency medical care facility is operational; and more. Find TXI’s coverage of the meeting here.
State and Federal Healthcare News
Texas
- With state funding ‘uncertain,’ Central Health sees revenue potential in Brackenridge site plan
- Texas House approves bill to cut off cities’ contracts with abortion providers
- Study: Freestanding ERs have not helped ease wait times at traditional nearby hospitals
- Paid sick leave ordinances stand in Texas, as bill to outlaw them crumbles
U.S.
- As Some States Limit Abortion, Others Move to Protect Abortion Rights
- Poll: Many Rural Americans Struggle With Financial Insecurity, Access To Health Care
- Democratic states, counties, sue Trump admin over religious protections rule
- U.S. Supreme Court takes no action in Indiana abortion cases
- Health care tops list of Americans’ top issues in new poll
- Measles Outbreak Now at 880 Cases, With Fastest Growth Still in New York
- McConnell, Kaine introduce bill to raise tobacco purchasing age from 18 to 21
- A.I. Took a Test to Detect Lung Cancer. It Got an A.
- When LA’s Air Got Better, Kids’ Asthma Cases Dropped
- For some trauma doctors, clash with NRA proves therapeutic
- Billboard welcomes people to Colorado, ‘Where you can get a safe, legal abortion’
- Supreme Court gives Merck another shot to avoid Fosamax lawsuits
- E.P.A. Plans to Get Thousands of Pollution Deaths Off the Books by Changing Its Math
- Measles outbreak spreads to 24 states
- What Does It Really Mean to Be 6 Weeks Pregnant?
- Five more U.S. states sue OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma over opioid epidemic
- Pro-ObamaCare group launches ad campaign to protect 20 House Dems
- In Cities Where It Once Reigned, Heroin Is Disappearing
- Sanders pledges to only nominate Supreme Court justices that support Roe v. Wade
- Citrus Farmers Facing Deadly Bacteria Turn to Antibiotics, Alarming Health Officials