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.
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.
State Representative Katrina Pierson has laid out a 12-part legislative package under the banner of the Texas Women's Health Initiative, pairing six women's health proposals with six broader medical measures aimed at prevention, early detection, treatment access and protecting the physician-patient relationship, according to an Aug. 12 news release and initiative materials from her office.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission will host a public forum Aug. 19 in Big Spring to share information and gather feedback on Rural Texas Strong, the state's plan for spending federal rural health funding, according to an Aug. 12 media advisory from the agency.
The five-member council that employs every staff member working for the state's physical therapy and occupational therapy boards meets Friday in Austin.
The Texas Medical Board meets Friday with a rule on its desk that would regulate ketamine clinics for the first time.
The Texas Funeral Service Commission votes Friday on a wholesale rewrite of the rules governing donated human bodies — a signed chain-of-custody form at every handoff, permission required before a body leaves the state, and a flat ban on selling tickets to watch remains dissected.
The largest infusion of federal health money rural Texas has ever received is moving from applications to contracts this month.