Senate Committee on Health and Human Services - 73rd R.S. (1993)

Committee: Senate Health and Human Services
Title: Interim report - Children and Adult Care Food Program
Library Catalog Title: The Texas Health and Human Services Commission : compliance with HB7 and a review of the Children and Adult Care Food Program in Texas interim report.
Subjects: Health and Human Services Commission, Texas |
Library Call Number: L1836.73 h349c
Session: 73rd R.S. (1993)
Online version: View report [23 pages  File size: 1,042 kb]
Charge: This report should address the charge below.
1. Review compliance by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission with the requirements of HB 7, 72nd Legislature, 1st Called Session and subsequent amendments thereto.
Committee: Senate Health and Human Services
Title: Interim report - Medically fragile children
Library Catalog Title: Medically fragile children in Texas : interim report.
Subjects: Children with disabilities | Long-term care | Nursing homes | Persons with disabilities |
Library Call Number: L1836.73 h349f
Session: 73rd R.S. (1993)
Online version: View report [123 pages  File size: 6,296 kb]
Charge: This report should address the charge below.
1. Investigate conditions reported in "Nobody's Priority", an Austin American Statesman series on children with severe disbilities living in Texas nursing homes.
Committee: Senate Health and Human Services
Title: Interim report - Reforming Medicaid
Library Catalog Title: Reforming Medicaid in Texas : interim report.
Subjects: Child nutrition programs | Fraud | Health and Human Services Commission, Texas | Human Services, Texas Department of | Managed care | Medicaid | Medicaid eligibility | State budgets | Welfare fraud |
Library Call Number: L1836.73 m468
Session: 73rd R.S. (1993)
Online version: View report [137 pages  File size: 7,824 kb]
Charges: This report should address the charges below.
1. Review and evaluate the options provided by the State Medicaid Director and make recommendations for state or federal administrative action that could be taken in the short term under current law, if any, with the goal of fundamentally changing the Medicaid delivery system to achieve significant savings in the Texas Medicaid Program in FY '96-'97.
2. Review Medicaid and other related programs in Texas and other states, such as Tennessee and Oregon, to identify cost-saving methods that have proven successful or have the potential to prove successful.
3. Identify barriers at the federal level, whether statutory or administrative, that restrict or limit Texas' ability to achieve substantial Medicaid cost-savings.
4. Make recommendations for state legislation, if necessary, to substantially reduce the growth in demand for spending in the 1996-97 Medicaid budget and following budget periods.
5. Review compliance by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission with the requirements of HB 7, 72nd Legislature, 1st Called Session and subsequent amendments thereto.
6. At the direction of the Lieutenant Governor, investigate allegations of fraud, mismanagement or waste in any health and human services program or agency involving substantial loss or risk of future loss to the state.
Supporting documents
Committee: Senate Health and Human Services
Title: Interim Report - Interest groups' recommendations on Medicaid reform
Library Catalog Title: Interest groups' recommendations on Medicaid reform.
Library Call Number: L1836.73 h349i 1&2
Session: 73rd R.S. (1993)
Committee: Senate Health and Human Services
Title: Committee documentation: daily minutes record, draft minutes, testimony of Richard C. Ladd, HHSC Commissioner (HHSC accomplishments, reorganization, LBB budget recommendations, DHS summary of impact of legislative budget estimates), guardianship
Library Catalog Title: Minutes
Library Call Number: L1803.9 H88 73
Session: 73rd R.S. (1993)
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