The Weekly Insight: September 24

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Texas Insight’s Recent Reports

HHSC Rate Hearings. This report covers three rate hearings: 1. Quarterly Healthcare Common Procedure Coding; 2. Substance Use Disorder Services – Update to Billing Procedure Code for Buprenorphine; and 3. Medicaid Payment Rates for the Medicaid Calendar Fee Review of Physician-Administered Drugs and Vaccines. Follow this link for the full report.

HHSC: Texas School Health Advisory Committee. The Committee gathered to hear a presentation by Dr. Hellerstedt, DSHS; review of the Texas Open Meetings Act requirements for committee members; discuss revisions to the Health Education for All Texas Students, Kindergarten through 12th Grade; hold a discussion on the Discussion of TSHAC rule project (25 Texas Administrative Code §37.350); hear updates from the Texas Education Agency, Texas Department of Agriculture, and Texas Department of State Health Services; and more. Find the full report here.

HHSC: Texas Council on Consumer Direction. The Council gathered to discuss the TCCD abolition and status of extension; hear state agency representative reports; hear an update on the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities; hear an overview of the rulemaking process; discuss the TCCD recommendation letter for expediting service authorization processes; hear an update on Electronic Visit Verification; hear a presentation on the Transition of Home and Community-based Services and Texas Home Living billing and claims processes from Health and Human Services Commission Client Assignment and Registration system to Texas Medicaid and Healthcare Partnership, and more. Find the full report here.

Looking Ahead:

September 23, 2019: Revised Notice of Public Hearing for Proposed Proxy Rates

September 27, 2019: Value-Based Payment and Quality Improvement Advisory Committee

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