Texas Insight’s Recent Reports
HHSC Rate Hearings. This report covers three rate hearings: 1. Quarterly Healthcare Common Procedure Coding; 2. Substance Use Disorder Services – Update to Billing Procedure Code for Buprenorphine; and 3. Medicaid Payment Rates for the Medicaid Calendar Fee Review of Physician-Administered Drugs and Vaccines. Follow this link for the full report.
HHSC: Texas School Health Advisory Committee. The Committee gathered to hear a presentation by Dr. Hellerstedt, DSHS; review of the Texas Open Meetings Act requirements for committee members; discuss revisions to the Health Education for All Texas Students, Kindergarten through 12th Grade; hold a discussion on the Discussion of TSHAC rule project (25 Texas Administrative Code §37.350); hear updates from the Texas Education Agency, Texas Department of Agriculture, and Texas Department of State Health Services; and more. Find the full report here.
HHSC: Texas Council on Consumer Direction. The Council gathered to discuss the TCCD abolition and status of extension; hear state agency representative reports; hear an update on the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities; hear an overview of the rulemaking process; discuss the TCCD recommendation letter for expediting service authorization processes; hear an update on Electronic Visit Verification; hear a presentation on the Transition of Home and Community-based Services and Texas Home Living billing and claims processes from Health and Human Services Commission Client Assignment and Registration system to Texas Medicaid and Healthcare Partnership, and more. Find the full report here.
Looking Ahead:
September 23, 2019: Revised Notice of Public Hearing for Proposed Proxy Rates
September 27, 2019: Value-Based Payment and Quality Improvement Advisory Committee
State and Federal Healthcare News
Texas
- Trio of audits out from HHSC OIG
- San Antonio’s paid sick leave law will cost small businesses but bring many benefits, study finds
- State health committee delves into challenges of vaping epidemic
US
- Pelosi offers Medicare negotiation plan to curb drug prices
- ‘It Gets To You.’ Extremism Researchers Confront The Unseen Toll Of Their Work
- Thousands of nurses walk off the job in Chicago hospital strike
- Abortions in Clinics Decline, but Abortions With Black-Market Pills Are Rising
- A New Way Of Paying For Maternity Care Aims To Reduce C-Sections
- Embattled Purdue Pharma asks judge to authorize $34M in employee bonuses
- Vaping Illnesses Increase to 530 Probable Cases, C.D.C. Says
- O’Rourke unveils plan to legalize marijuana, end war on drugs
- Pelosi’s Drug Plan Would Let U.S. Negotiate Prices of 250 Medications
- House panel delays vote on surprise medical bills legislation
- America’s Abortion Rate Has Dropped to Its Lowest Ever