Coverage of health care and insurance in Texas -- Medicaid and HHSC rules, hospitals and rural care, health insurance and TDI regulation, public health, and the agencies that oversee care.
Texas dietitians will owe the state two hours of continuing education on metabolic health or ultra-processed foods to renew their licenses after Jan. 1, one hour less than regulators proposed in September, after licensees called the subjects vague and the deadline too tight.
A 40-year-old in Taylor County shopping on HealthCare.gov for 2027 coverage will find plans from just one company, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas.
Texas wants to hire private auditors to hunt for overpayments in the part of Medicaid run through private health plans, and the state estimates the effort would return $72.4 million a year once it is fully running.
Twenty student nurses at Hill College finished their pediatrics and childbirth courses without ever caring for a real patient, and the Texas Board of Nursing would not let their graduation papers be signed until they went back and did the hours.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a $45 million settlement with Gilead Sciences, Inc. to resolve claims that the company engaged in an illegal kickback scheme that influenced prescriptions paid for by Texas Medicaid, according to an Oct. 22 news release from the Office of the Attorney General.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Oct. 22 that the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) plans to award $8 million in Rural Texas Strong grants to 28 rural healthcare providers across the state, according to a news release from the governor’s office.
Nearly a third of the in-home nursing hours that Texas Medicaid approved for medically fragile children were never delivered, state health officials told a public meeting in Austin on Oct. 15.
The Texas Medical Board, which licenses and disciplines every physician in the state, meets Oct. 23 to sign off on a stack of disciplinary orders — including cases where the proposed penalty comes in below the board’s own minimum.
Texans filed 1,662 complaints against veterinarians last year, nearly double the year before.
The Texas Board of Nursing will meet Oct. 22 to take up notice that Sul Ross State University is voluntarily closing the bachelor's degree nursing program it opened in Alpine five years ago — a decision the university has not announced publicly and the posted agenda does not explain.
Comanche County Medical Center is in line for $6.83 million in Rural Texas Strong grants across three separate awards, but none of the three has a signed contract, according to a state list updated Oct. 14.
The committee that sets health care policy for the 143,000 people in Texas prisons meets Oct. 21 in Galveston to hear what gene therapy and engineered cell treatments will mean for a system that already spends more than half its drug budget on two diseases.
Texas owes the people who run its 156 rural hospitals a free management school, and the nine-member state committee writing the coursework has until Sept. 1, 2027 to deliver it — the day the law puts the committee out of existence, finished or not.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Oct. 15 that the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) plans to award $78 million in Rural Texas Strong grants to 216 rural health care providers across the state, according to a news release from the governor’s office.