Texas Insight’s Recent Reports
- HHSC: Stakeholder Webinar Concerning Rider Reports 60 and 61a: HHSC held a webinar to update stakeholders on the progress they had made related to Rider 60 and Rider 61.A. The Riders are presented in this report.
Looking Ahead
- October 15, 2018: Texas Brain Injury Advisory Council
- October 17, 2018: Proposed Medicaid Payment Rates for the Medical Policy Review of Peer Support Specialist
- October 19, 2018: Newborn Screening Advisory Committee Meeting
State and Federal Healthcare News
Texas
- State to kick out group with anti-abortion ties from Texas women’s health programs
- Despite legal uncertainty, sales of cannabis extract booming in Texas
- North Texas autism community breaks ground to meet ‘gigantic’ need
- Baylor bends the cost curve on employee health care. Can DART do the same?
- As Texas faces a sharp increase in special education students, the shortage of teachers could get worse
- 8 cases of rare ‘polio-like’ condition reported in Texas
- “They’ve got to execute you”: Doctor faces discipline after raising concerns at St. Luke’s in Houston
- Medical-focused CAST high school to open next year
- Planned SHSU med school aims to ease shortage of doctors in rural Texas
U.S.
- Trump Rule Would Compel Drug Makers to Disclose Prices in TV Commercials
- Trump attacks ‘Crazy Bernie’ Sanders over Medicare plans
- Code Name Jane: The Women Behind a Covert Abortion Network
- Medicare Advantage Plans Found to Improperly Deny Many Claims
- 4,000 more people lose Medicaid coverage in Arkansas under new work requirements
- Sloan Kettering Researchers Correct the Record by Revealing Company Ties
- FDA threatens to ban sales of some new e-cigarette products
- Every Older Patient Has a Story. Medical Students Need to Hear It.
- NYTimes Fact Check of the Day: Trump Falsely Claims that “Medicare for All” Would Turn the U.S. Into Venezuela
- House committee to investigate rising maternal mortality rates
- Premiums for Most Popular Type of Obamacare Plan Will Drop Next Year