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Regional Healthcare Partnership (RHP)
May 11, 2017
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The state is divided into 20 regional healthcare divisions that provide the non-federal portion of Medicaid 1115 Waiver funds and determine waiver funding priorities and metrics, according to waiver requirements. RHPs…
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Texas High Risk Pool
May 1, 2017
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Beginning in 1998, the Texas Legislature created the Texas Health Insurance Pool, a high-risk pool which consisted of a separate insurance pool for the chronically ill who were virtually uninsurable in an unregulated non-group (sometimes referred to as individual) market. (Without pre-existing conditions protections, insurers will charge sick people more than those that are well). The pool was financed by patient revenue and assessments paid by insurance companies and HMOs as well as federal grant funds.
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Record Vote
April 24, 2017
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A listing of the individual vote of each member of a committee or the full house or senate on a particular motion or measure. [Source: Texas House of Representatives –…
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Rider
April 23, 2017
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A legislative directive, inserted in the General Appropriations Act following appropriation line items for an agency, that provides direction, expansion, restriction, legislative intent, or an appropriation. The term also applies…
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Reading
April 23, 2017
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The presentation of a bill before either chamber by the recital of the caption of the bill. The Texas Constitution requires that every bill be read in each chamber on…
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