Texas Insight’s Recent Reports Texas House of Representatives: Committee on Human Services: The committee met to consider Interim Charge 2, a review of managed care in Texas. In particular, the committee…
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Texas Insight’s Recent Reports An Update on the Texas Opioid Epidemic: This posting provides an overview of the opioid crisis and offers some policy solutions that will effectively reduce our…
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Meeting Summary. The Select Committee met to consider invited testimony only on the following interim charges:
Continuation of Charge 1: Study the prevalence and impact of substance use and substance use disorders in Texas, including co-occurring mental illness. Study the prevalence and impact of opioids and synthetic drugs in Texas. Review the history of overdoses and deaths due to overdoses. Also review other health-related impacts due to substance abuse. Identify substances that are contributing to overdoses, related deaths and health impacts, and compare the data to other states. During the review, identify effective and efficient prevention and treatment responses by health care systems, including hospital districts and coordination across state and local governments. Recommend solutions to prevent overdoses and related health impacts and deaths in Texas.
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Texas Insight’s Recent Reports DSHS: Investigational Stem Cell Treatment Rules – Stakeholder Meeting: The DSHS held a stakeholder meeting to accept comments as the agency develops rules to designate medical…
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Texas Insight’s Recent Reports House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations: Article II Subcommittee – Part I: The subcommittee took up specific aspects of Interim Charge 4, including: When reviewing the HHSC’s managed…
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Summary. This report provides information about the FY2019 budget request for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The report begins by reviewing the department’s mission and structure. Next, the…
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Texas Insight Reports Texas Women in Poverty: Part II: This second and final posting on female poverty in Texas examines how female poverty affects children. Best practices for addressing structural gender…
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Members of Congress are frequently lobbied to support adding funding to annual defense appropriation legislation for certain congressional special-interest medical research programs on a wide variety of diseases and topics.…
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Texas Insight’s Recent Reports DSHS: Task Force on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response: The Texas Task Force on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response met for the first time since November of…
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Summary. On February 9, 2018, President Donald Trump signed into law the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (BBA 2018; P.L. 115-123). Division E of that law is titled the Advancing Chronic…
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