Welcome and introductions: The meeting was convened by Helen Baker, Vice Chair of the Texas Council on Consumer Direction (CDS). Review and approve December 4, 2018, meeting minutes: Minutes from…
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Texas Insight’s Recent Reports Health and Human Services Commission: 86th Legislative Session Update. The HHSC Executive Council gathered to hear 86th Legislative Session updates concerning the Health and Human Services…
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Introduction. The life sciences industry in Texas includes thousands of private firms employing tens of thousands of workers, dozens of world-class research universities and institutions with an increasing expertise in commercialization…
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The Trump administration and Texas leadership continue to offer a block grant model as a more “flexible” form of the Medicaid program than the traditional model, in place since the program’s 1965 inception as part of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. Texas advocates of replacing traditional Medicaid with block grants are urging Texas leadership to pass a contingency Medicaid block grant act that will go into effect when a federal plan to block grant the program is in place and to lobby the Texas Congressional delegation to make block grants a priority. This posting explores block grant design and the impact of transforming Texas Medicaid to a block grant.
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Texas Insight’s Recent Reports House Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Article II DFPS: The Subcommittee gathered to hear testimony on House Budget recommendations for the Department of Family and Protective Services.…
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Texas Insight’s Recent Reports Senate Committee on Finance gathered to discuss Article II Agencies. Texas Insight covered: Health and Human Services Commission: LBB presentation and testimony and Agency presentation and…
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Texas Insight’s Recent Reports House and Senate Items of Appropriation. The following reports contain appropriations comparisons for the HHSC, the DSHS, and the DFPS drawn from H.B. 1 and S.B. 1.…
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TEXAS INSIGHT’S RECENT REPORTS Budget/Policy Update on the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. The Senate Committee on Finance gathered to discuss select Article I agencies. However, this report…
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MEETING SUMMARY
Call to order: Roll was called. A quorum was present.
Approval of minutes from October 26, 2018: The minutes were approved.
New business
Public comment on drug classes and therapeutic and clinical drug reviews to be reviewed for the Medicaid Preferred Drug List (PDL):
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Texas Insight’s Recent Reports House and Senate Appropriations: Article II. Both the House and the Senate provide an All Funds Health and Human Services agencies total of $84.8 billion, an…
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