Texas Insight’s Recent Reports
HHSC: Texas Brain Injury Advisory Council. The committee gathered to discuss committee business, including a) education and Awareness and Services and Supports Committee updates and b) Legislative and Policy Committee updates. TBIAC reviewed topics for the 2019 Executive Commissioner report, and more. Follow this link to read the full report.
Looking Ahead
July 22, 2019: Joint Meeting of the Aging and Disability Resource Center Advisory Committee and Texas Respite Advisory Committee
July 24, 2019: Joint Committee on Access and Forensic Services
July 25, 2019: Intellectual and Developmental Disability System Redesign Advisory Committee
July 25, 2019: Texas Diabetes Council
July 26, 2019: Drug Utilization Review Board
State and Federal Healthcare News
Texas
- Texas doubled funding for an anti-abortion program. Now lawmakers want to award the money without competitive bidding.
- HHSC Expands Treatment for Early-Onset Psychosis to Rural Texans
- Through grant, Seton expands intensive PTSD program to veterans
- U.S. overdose deaths on track to drop for 1st time since 1990 but not in Texas
US
- Bill Wehrum, an Architect of E.P.A. Rollbacks, Faces New Ethics Inquiry
- 2 Nurses In Tennessee Preach ‘Diabetes Reversal’
- Federal judge upholds Trump’s expansion of non-ObamaCare plans
- Bayer could benefit from home advantage in St. Louis Roundup cancer trial: experts
- Politicians Tackle Surprise Bills, but Not the Biggest Source of Them: Ambulances
- Trump administration pauses new rule limiting abortion referrals: report
- Health care moves to center stage in Democratic primary fight
- CDC links two deaths to multi-state salmonella outbreak
- Children Face Foster Care Over School Meal Debt, District Warns
- ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli to stay behind bars, loses appeal of conviction
- House votes to repeal ObamaCare’s ‘Cadillac tax’
- 3,271 Pill Bottles, a Town of 2,831: Court Filings Say Corporations Fed Opioid Epidemic