Texas Insight’s Recent Reports
HHSC: Public Hearing – Implementation of House Bill 3703 Proposed New Rule Designating Incurable Neurodegenerative Diseases. The Committee gathered to discuss HB 3703 and take any public comment. Find the full report here.
HHSC: Policy Council for Children and Families: The Council gathered to hear the introduction of new members, hear a presentation on PCCF background information, hear a presentation entitled, Intensive Behavioral Intervention for Children on The Autism Spectrum, hear Intellectual and Developmental Disability System Redesign Advisory Committee updates, hear a program update on legislative implementation planning, discuss 2020 legislative report planning, and more. Follow this link for the full report.
Looking Ahead
September 16, 2019: Texas School Health Advisory Committee
September 20, 2019: Proposed Medicaid Payment Rates for the Quarterly Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) Updates
September 20, 2019: Substance Use Disorder Services – Update to Billing Procedure Code for Buprenorphine
September 20, 2019: Proposed Medicaid Payment Rates for the Medicaid Calendar Fee Review of Physician-Administered Drugs and Vaccines
September 20, 2019: Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee
State and Federal Healthcare News
Texas
- Texas told cities they couldn’t fund abortion providers. So Austin is funding abortion access instead.
- ‘These are 20-year-olds’: Vaping-related illnesses surface at San Antonio hospitals
- Whole Foods cuts back on benefits for part-time workers
US
- Planned Parenthood and Fired Former Chief Mired in Escalating Dispute
- Democrats spar over electoral appeal of ‘Medicare for All’
- Opioid Defendants Seek to Disqualify Judge Overseeing 2,300 Cases
- FDA warns of contaminant in popular heartburn medicine
- In First, California Would Require Public Universities to Provide Abortion Pills
- CNN to stop running Juul ads
- New York Uncovers $1 Billion in Sackler Family Wire Transfers
- Poll: Most Democrats want presidential candidate who would build on ObamaCare
- For Older Patients, an ‘Afterworld’ of Hospital Care
- Psychiatrists find gender identity ‘conversion therapy’ leads to suicidal ideation
- For Children With Peanut Allergies, F.D.A. Experts Recommend a New Treatment
- Senate panel cancels vote on key spending bill amid standoff
- Zantac Has Low Levels of a Cancer-Causing Chemical, the F.D.A. Says
- Number of uninsured jumps for first time since 2009
- Nursing Homes Are a Breeding Ground for a Fatal Fungus
- Pelosi draft plan would allow negotiation on 250 drugs per year: summary
- ‘If I’m Sent Back, I Will Die’: Sick Immigrants Tell Their Stories to Congress
- Exclusive: While battling opioid crisis, U.S. government weighed using fentanyl for executions
- Purdue Pharma Tentatively Settles Thousands of Opioid Cases
- How A Proposed 3-Digit Suicide Hotline Could Help Prevention Efforts
- Trump Administration Plans to Ban Flavored E-Cigarettes