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.
Texas health officials are proposing to delete the sentence that tells a family caring for a disabled relative at home exactly how little it may pay the worker who helps.
Texas pays 56 peer service coordinators to reach veterans in crisis across 254 counties.
A Texas child with autism used to lose access to the state’s autism treatment program on the morning of his 16th birthday.
The Texas House Select Committee on Health Care Affordability will gavel in at 9 a.m. Sept. 1 to take invited testimony only on four interim charges aimed at the cost side of the state's health care system — delivery and financing models, insurance plan design, coverage for smaller employers, and what consumers are able to learn about price and quality before they buy.
The board that runs the Employees Retirement System of Texas will meet Aug. 25 to set what retired state workers will pay next year for their Medicare coverage.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission has reached a major construction milestone at the Panhandle State Hospital in Amarillo, where crews placed the final steel beam on the 75-bed psychiatric facility this week.
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.