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 health officials want a handbook they can rewrite at any time, without notice or public comment, to carry the force of law over the agencies that care for Texans who are both deaf and blind.
The agency that runs Medicaid, mental health care and food assistance for Texas has told state budget writers it can absorb a 3 percent cut without touching Medicaid — and the line-by-line list attached to that promise eliminates its autism program, eliminates its prescription drug savings program and takes $21.7 million out of women's health.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Sept. 17 that the federal government has approved nearly $12 billion in Medicaid funding for Texas health care providers, ending a months-long impasse with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The tell, Patrick Quigley says, is what Texans do when they actually need care.
A rule that took effect Sept. 3 erased a 120-hour classroom requirement for the uncertified technicians allowed to operate X-ray equipment in Texas medical offices.
Texas has enrolled more than 368,000 women in its flagship no-cost women's health program.
A coalition of North Texas hospitals has handed out more than 22,000 bottles of over-the-counter iron to pregnant women, and the region's blood transfusion rate has fallen.
The council that sits atop Texas' health and human services agencies meets Sept. 17 to hear what a coming federal food-stamp penalty could cost the state.
The Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists meets Sept. 17 on a rejected license application and an enforcement case that went to a state hearings judge.
The board that certifies every respiratory therapist in Texas meets Sept. 17 to take up two sets of changes to its own rulebook.
Texas would bar a behavior analyst from letting artificial intelligence help write a child’s therapy plan unless the family signed off first — and would forbid the analyst from ever letting the software make the call alone.
The state board created to cut what Texas pays for prescription drugs meets Sept. 16 with roughly $119 million of its $150 million carrying no planned use and the law that created it set to expire next September.