Kristen Doyle Wants to Take the Luck Out of Surviving Cancer
In January 2005, Kristen Doyle was a 32-year-old utility lawyer at the top of her game.
In January 2005, Kristen Doyle was a 32-year-old utility lawyer at the top of her game.
Texas health policymakers will take public testimony on July 24 on a Medicaid payment change aimed squarely at one of the state's most acute access problems: the loss of labor-and-delivery services from rural hospitals.
The Texas Medical Association is urging Texans to guard against heat-related illness as high temperatures are predicted to near or eclipse 100 degrees across many areas of the state this week, according to a July 8 news release from the physicians' group.
The largest state share of a new federal rural-health fund has started reaching individual Texas counties, a step toward shoring up the hospitals and clinics whose closures drive up costs and shrink access across rural Texas.
Texans who buy their own health insurance are on track for a second consecutive year of steep premium increases, as insurers across the country file 2027 rates that would push the cost of Affordable Care Act coverage up by more than a third over two years.
A sheriff, a prosecutor, a defense lawyer and a probate judge sat at the same witness table Tuesday and told the Texas Senate Committee on Health and Human Services the same thing: county jails have become the state's default mental hospital, and the counties are paying for it.
A network representing 45 rural and community hospitals across Texas is moving to terminate its contracts with UnitedHealthcare, a standoff that turns on the reimbursement rates rural facilities say are too low to keep their doors open.
Texas health insurers are filing their proposed 2027 marketplace rates this summer after enhanced federal premium subsidies that supported Affordable Care Act coverage for millions expired.
The Texas Medical Association is calling for a minimum age of 21 and new safeguards for online prediction market platforms, warning that the fast-growing betting apps could put Texas adolescents at risk of addiction.