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 rewritten the rules governing when the state bills a dead person's estate for the long-term care Medicaid paid for, and the changes take effect Aug. 27.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services have opened the Terrell Center for Youth, a specialized residential treatment facility built for adolescents with complex mental health, substance use or intellectual and developmental disability needs.
Texas health officials proposed a rule published Aug. 21 that would let the state's most medically fragile children get nursing care at home without first spending time in a nursing facility and without waiting their turn on a list that runs years long.
Cereals served in school cafeterias no longer contain synthetic food dyes, the office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in an Aug. 19 news release, the result of settlements the office reached with WK Kellogg Co. and General Mills Inc. The agreements grew out of a months-long investigation into the safety of certain ingredients in cereal products, followed by weeks of negotiation, according to the release.
The nonprofit Texas created to move patient records between hospitals holds a quarterly board meeting by video Aug. 21, with a review of whether it should keep existing now under way at the Legislature's Sunset Advisory Commission.
The Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners meets Thursday to take up a rewrite of its patient-payment rule that would let people who are not chiropractors sell wellness plans, membership deals and concierge care for chiropractic services.
The council that gathers public comment for Texas's health and human services agency meets Thursday, and day care dominates its list.
The board that runs Texas's cancer research agency meets Wednesday to approve the final grants of the budget year, and there is not much left to give.
Texas health officials have proposed letting the state take Medicaid payment room that some hospitals do not use and hand it to other hospitals in the same category, in a rule change open for public comment only until 11:59 p.m. Aug. 21.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is hosting a public forum Aug. 19 in Big Spring to provide information and gather feedback on the state's Rural Texas Strong plan, according to an Aug. 12 media advisory from the agency.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced that the Texas Health and Human Services Commission received federal approval to extend the time SNAP recipients can apply for replacement benefits for food lost or destroyed by July flooding, according to an Aug. 3 news release from HHSC.
The Texas House Committee on Public Health will gavel in at 9 a.m. Aug. 20 to hear invited testimony on four interim charges that run from social media's effects on young Texans' mental health to infant mortality, artificial intelligence in medicine and the state's readiness for communicable-disease threats.