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Texas has withdrawn the increase it sought in its largest Medicaid hospital payment program and cut the rate it pays, telling federal officials on Sept. 9 and 10 that it would hold the program to $9,148,763,142 rather than the $9,254,513,046 it had written into its application — a difference of about $105.7 million that will not reach Texas hospitals this year.
Texas has received federal approval to give households in 16 counties more time to request replacement food benefits lost during Tropical Storm Edouard, Gov. Greg Abbott announced in a Sept. 11 news release.
A Texan who wants to know which Medicaid health plan the state has fined, and for what, can go to the page the Health and Human Services Commission built for exactly that purpose.
The Texas House Subcommittee on Maternal Health, Menopause, and Access to Evidence-Based Medicine will gavel in at 10 a.m. Sept. 15 in Capitol Extension room E2.030 for its first hearing, taking invited testimony only on two interim charges: whether iron and other essential supplements should reach more pregnant Texans, and whether the Healthy Texas Women program is working.
The Texas Nutrition Advisory Committee has published the state’s first set of nutritional guidelines, offering Texans six plain-language recommendations for building healthier meals.
The Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiners will meet Sept. 11 to consider picking one of its own licensees for the state council that actually writes the rules governing social work — a seat that sits empty on the council's posted roster.
A Dallas child care center that recently changed hands can start chasing higher state payments almost two months earlier than the rules allow, after Texas workforce commissioners voted Sept. 8 to set aside two of their own eligibility requirements for its new owner.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission has received federal approval to give Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients in Bexar County more time to apply for replacement benefits for food lost or destroyed in recent storms, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Sept. 5.
The Texas House Committee on Human Services will gavel in at 10 a.m. Sept. 9 in Capitol Extension room E2.012 to take invited testimony on six interim charges spanning the state's foster care system: how three 2025 laws are being carried out, whether families under investigation by child welfare authorities are getting the services and the due process they are owed, and what happens to children after a private adoption closes.
A Texas assisted living facility currently satisfies state law by offering its residents one planned activity a week.
The order the Texas Department of Insurance issued Sept. 2 outlawing a pricing practice called price optimization was announced as a homeowners' insurance measure, and the governor's release discussed it entirely in those terms.