Texas Insight’s Recent Reports
HHSC: The Mental Health Condition and Substance Use Disorder Parity Workgroup. The Workgroup gathered to hear State agency updates; discuss differences between state and federal parity laws; discuss the Mental Health Condition and Substance Use Disorder Parity Workgroup Statewide Strategic Plan; and more. Follow this link for the full report.
Looking Ahead
January 22, 2020: Early Childhood Intervention Advisory Committee
January 23, 2020: Intellectual and Developmental Disability System Redesign Advisory Committee (IDD SRAC) Joint meeting with HB 4533 STAR+PLUS Pilot Program Workgroup (SPPPW)
January 23, 2020: Texas Diabetes Council
January 24, 2020: Drug Utilization Review Board
January 24, 2020: Texas HIV Medication Advisory Committee
State and Federal Healthcare News
Texas
- HHS: Expands Child Care Search Site To Help Families Find Quality Care
- San Antonio pharma rep gets 2-plus years in prison, must pay $1.7 million in national health fraud case
- Permanency Planning and Family-based Alternatives Report, January, 2020
U.S.
- Report: Progress in reducing racial gap in health insurance has stalled since 2016
- Supreme Court to Consider Limits on Contraception Coverage
- Republican FTC commissioner says she supports Medicare negotiating drug prices
- $8 Billion Verdict in Drug Lawsuit Is Reduced to $6.8 Million
- CDC removes advisory from website recommending to consider stopping all vaping
- Patients Still Struggle To Balance High Costs Of MS Treatment, Despite Generic
- Democratic Attorneys General Sue to Block Trump Food Stamp Cuts
- Anti-abortion group reveals $52M budget to help Trump, Senate Republicans in battleground states
- No Charges in Assault Complaint at V.A. Hospital, and a Public Fight Erupts
- CDC to begin airport screenings for cases of new Chinese virus
- Overwhelmed by Medical Bills, and Finding Help on TikTok
- Flu closes entire school district in Illinois
- Rich People Don’t Just Live Longer. They Also Get More Healthy Years.
- 61 percent of millennials familiar with anti-vaccination movement agree with some beliefs: survey