Coverage of health policy in Texas -- Medicaid and HHSC rules, hospital and insurance regulation, public health, and the agencies that oversee care.
Texas ordered emergency room doctors to learn how to treat sexual assault survivors and collect the evidence that a prosecution later rests on, a requirement that took effect Sept. 1.
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.
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.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Sept. 1 that his office has opened an investigation into TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp. over the company's handling of health insurance claims.
Three things happened in Texas health care on September 1.
Texas health insurers told a House committee Sept. 1 that state regulations have contributed to employers moving away from the fully insured market.
Texas 2036 released new polling Sept. 1 showing broad support among Texas voters for state action to improve transparency and competition in the healthcare market.
Texas hospitals stopped earning roughly $27 million a day in extra Medicaid money on Sept. 1, the first day of the state's new fiscal year, because federal regulators have not signed off on three programs that pay hospitals, doctors and rural clinics the difference between what Medicaid pays and what care actually costs.