Texas House approves new health care organizations
AUSTIN - The Texas House gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a bill that would create a new type of health care organization in an effort to cut costs and improve efficiencies.The creation of the new...
View ArticleHouse committee approves revamping health care program
AUSTIN - The Texas Senate unanimously passed legislation that would overhaul how Texas delivers health care to the poor disabled, while a House committee approved similar legislation.The Senate and...
View ArticleTexas House panel approves health care compact
AUSTIN - A Texas House panel revived legislation Monday to allow Texas to govern federal health care benefits on its own by joining a multistate agreement challenging federal health care law.The plan...
View ArticleState House committee hears testimony on health care
AUSTIN — The percentage of Texans with health insurance would rise from 74 percent to 91 percent under the new federal health care law, a state official told lawmakers Monday.State Medicaid Director...
View ArticleTexas lawmakers study food shortages across state
AUSTIN — Texas lawmakers should pass laws that make it easier to produce and sell fruit and vegetables in poor communities to promote better health, farmers and activists testified Tuesday.Judith...
View ArticleDrugs, mental health top legislative issues
AUSTIN — If the Texas Legislature is in session, there must be a fight about Medicaid going on.The health care program for the disabled, the elderly poor and the impoverished raises hackles every two...
View ArticleTexas Medicaid waiver presents structuring challenges
By year’s end, health care providers across Texas will have submitted proposals to state leaders to transform the way they care for the poor and uninsured. They have been spurred by a Medicaid waiver...
View ArticleTexas bill would allow doctors to delegate more
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Key lawmakers have introduced a bill that would allow doctors to delegate limited prescription authority to nurses and physician assistants in more situations.Sen. Jane Nelson and...
View ArticleTexas bill would allow doctors to delegate more
AUSTIN (AP) — Key lawmakers have introduced a bill that would allow doctors to delegate limited prescription authority to nurses and physician assistants in more situations.Sen. Jane Nelson and Rep....
View ArticleMost in Texas Medicaid are children or elderly
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Every odd-numbered year, the Texas health and human services commissioner appears before state lawmakers hungry to cut spending on Medicaid, and at every meeting he or she shows...
View ArticleMost in Texas Medicaid are children, elderly
AUSTIN — Every odd-numbered year, the Texas health and human services commissioner appears before state lawmakers hungry to cut spending on Medicaid, and at every meeting he or she shows them a chart...
View ArticleRangel: Committee chairmen criticized for not bringing up bills
AUSTIN — With only a week left in this year’s legislative session, for all practical purposes thousands of bills, including high-profile measures such as a texting while driving ban or prohibiting...
View ArticleTexas lawmakers to pass key special session bills
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas lawmakers approved a new sentencing option for juveniles who commit capital crimes on Friday, allowing judges and juries to choose life in prison with the possibility of parole in...
View ArticleTexas Senate approves roads, criminal justice
AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Legislature approved on Thursday a mandatory sentence of life in prison with parole possible after 40 years for 17-year-olds who commit capital crimes.Both the Senate and House...
View ArticleAbbott's emergency items: Where are they now?
It's been less than a month since first-term Gov. Greg Abbott picked five items that he declared emergencies and — presumably — placed on a legislread more
View ArticleProtections for breast-feeding mothers face opposition
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