Coverage of health policy in Texas -- Medicaid and HHSC rules, hospital and insurance regulation, public health, and the agencies that oversee care.
A home health aide, hospice worker or personal-care attendant whom state investigators conclude has abused, neglected or exploited a client would have to be suspended by their employer until every appeal is exhausted, under a rewrite of the licensing rules for Texas home care agencies that the Health and Human Services Commission published Sept. 18.
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.
Katrina Pierson was working full time, going to school and raising a child when she told her doctor she was exhausted and something felt wrong.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is marking Healthy Aging Month in September by highlighting resources for older Texans and inviting the public to help shape the state's Aging Texas Well Strategic Plan, according to a Sept. 23 news release from the agency.
The nine-member board that writes the ethics rules for Texas marriage and family therapists will meet Sept. 25 to recommend a rewrite that would, for the first time, put a therapist's use of artificial intelligence under the same rule as therapy delivered by video.
The governor-appointed council that writes the state's plan for independent living services meets Sept. 25 and 26 in Georgetown to hear findings on what is and is not working in the current plan — and to vote on accepting the report the same afternoon it is presented.
The board that oversees the state program monitoring Texas doctors with addiction and mental health conditions meets Sept. 25 to take up drug and alcohol testing — an item that has appeared on every posted agenda since at least July 2023 and has never produced a recorded decision.
McKinney residents of all ages are invited to join physician Francy Shu, MD, for the area's first Walk with a Doc Texas event on Saturday, Sept. 26, according to a Sept. 22 media advisory from the Texas Medical Association (TMA).
By Dr. Clifford Porter This is the time of year employers, local governments, employees, and individuals are looking at their healthcare renewals and expect double digit insurance premium increases for 2027.
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.