Texas Insight Newsletter
HHSC: STAR Kids Managed Care Advisory Committee. The Committee gathered to hear subcommittee updates; discuss the STAR Kids Advisory Committee Annual Report; hear Health and Human Services Commission updates; discuss STAR Kids utilization data; discuss the Quarterly Therapy Access Monitoring Report; and more. Follow this link for the full report.
HHSC: Texas Council on Consumer Direction. The Council gathered to hear a TCCD expiration/renewal status update; discuss the Consumer Directed Services (CDS) conference; discuss CDS training for service coordinators and case managers; hear a Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities update; hear State agency representative reports; and more. Follow this link for the full report. Follow this link for the full report.
HHSC: Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee. The Committee gathered to hear the Commissioner’s Address to Committee; hear updates from the Subcommittee on Health Disparities; hear Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee Operational Updates; hear HHSC Legislative Updates; take public comment; and more. Follow this link for the full report.
Looking Ahead
December 18, 2019: Notice of Public Hearing on Proposed Amendments to Texas Administrative Code §§355.8065, 355.8066, and 355.8212
State and Federal Healthcare News
Texas
- Nonprofits claim Texas broke the law by leaving them out of Medicaid contracts
- HHS: Now Recognizes Certain Out-Of-State Occupational Licenses Of Military Spouses
- All U.S. Attorneys General Call On Congress To Pass Bipartisan FIGHT Fentanyl
- Individual mandate is unconstitutional, federal appellate court rules in Texas-led Affordable Care Act lawsuit
US
- Scientists Reach Out To Minority Communities To Diversify Alzheimer’s Studies
- A New Drug Scourge: Deaths Involving Meth Are Rising Fast
- Facebook bans ‘black salve’ user groups from the social media platform
- Joe Biden Is ‘Healthy’ And ‘Vigorous’ According To Doctor’s Report
- Purdue Pharma Payments to Sackler Family Soared Amid Opioid Crisis
- Health officials authorize low-nicotine cigarettes for public sale
- To Prevent Deadly Infections, F.D.A. Approves the First Disposable ‘Scope’
- Government Extends Open Enrollment For ACA Health Plans, But Only For 36 Hours
- Clinic waiting room in Harlem becomes experiment in humanizing medicine
- Trade deal leaves PhRMA out in the cold
- Vaping increases the risk of lung disease by a third: U.S. study
- Federal Watchdog Questions Billions of Dollars Paid to Private Medicare Plans
- Trump administration announces move aimed to increase organ donations
- House Votes to Give the Government the Power to Negotiate Drug Prices