Subject search results

5 Document(s) [ Subject: Medical screening ]

Committee:	Senate Health and Human Services
Title:	Interim Report
Subjects:	Assisted living facilities | At-risk youth | Cancer | Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas | Child welfare | Children without placement | Children's mental health | Coronavirus | Emergency management | Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 | Family and Protective Services, Texas Department of | Foster care | Health and Human Services Commission, Texas | Health care | Health insurance | Hurricane Beryl | Intermediate Care Facilities for Persons with Mental Disabilities | Juvenile detention facilities | Long-term care | Medicaid | Medicaid fraud | Medical licensing | Medical screening | Mental health services | Nursing education | Nursing homes | Nursing shortages | Occupational licenses | Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | Physician shortages | Power outages | Thriving Texas Families | Vaccine mandates | Workforce Commission, Texas |
Library Call Number:	L1836.88 H349
Session:	88th R.S. (2023)
Online version:	View report [94 pages  File size: 3,997 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Children’s Mental Health: Review care and services currently available to the growing population of Texas children with high acuity mental and behavioral health needs. Make recommendations to improve access to care and services for these children that will support family preservation and prevent them from entering the child welfare system.
2.	Access to Health Care: Evaluate current access to primary and mental health care. Examine whether regulatory and licensing flexibilities could improve access to care, particularly in medically underserved areas of Texas. Make recommendations, if any, to improve access to care while maintaining patient safety.
3.	Health Insurance: Examine the Texas health insurance market and alternatives to employer-based insurance. Identify barriers Texans face when navigating a complex health insurance market. Make recommendations that help individuals obtain health care coverage.
4.	Cancer Prevention: Identify and recommend ways to address the growing impact of cancer on Texans by evaluating state investments in cancer prevention and screenings including, but not limited to, "CT," "MRI," and "PET" scans. Study and make recommendations on funding adequacy for prevention efforts at the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT).
5.	Monitoring: Monitor the implementation of legislation addressed by the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services passed by the 88th Legislature, as well as relevant agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction. Specifically, make recommendations for any legislation needed to improve, enhance, or complete implementation of the following: SB 7, 88th 3rd C.S., relating to prohibiting a private employer from adopting or enforcing certain COVID-19 vaccine mandates; authorizing an administrative penalty; SB 24, 88th R.S., relating to the powers and duties of the Health and Human Services Commission and the transfer to the commission of certain powers and duties from the Department of Family and Protective Services; SB 25, 88th R.S., relating to support for nursing-related postsecondary education, including scholarships to nursing students, loan repayment assistance to nurses and nursing faculty, and grants to nursing education programs; SB 26, 88th R.S., relating to local mental health authority and local behavioral health authority audits and mental and behavioral health reporting, services, and programs; SB 1849, 88th R.S., relating to an interagency reportable conduct search engine, standards for a person's removal from the employee misconduct registry and eligibility for certification as certain Texas Juvenile Justice Department officers and employees, and the use of certain information by certain state agencies to conduct background checks; Initiatives to reduce Medicaid fraud, waste, and abuse, as well as other cost containment strategies; and Medicaid managed care oversight and accountability.
6.	Protecting Vulnerable Texans in Emergencies: Examine commercial residential settings for the elderly and individuals with intellectual disabilities, including assisted living facilities, boarding homes, group homes, and independent living communities. Identify emergency preparedness and response protocols required during severe weather for these populations. Make recommendations, if necessary, for the establishment and enforcement of emergency protocols to ensure vulnerable populations are protected.
Committee:	House Health Care Reform, Select
Title:	Interim Report
Subjects:	Children's Health Insurance Program | Disease prevention | Health care | Health care costs | Health care disparities | Health insurance | Medicaid | Medical screening | Prescription drug costs |
Library Call Number:
Session:	87th R.S. (2021)
Online version:	View report [102 pages  File size: 2,402 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Study the implications of excessive health care costs on the efficacy of Texas Medicaid and the private health insurance market and the resulting impact on individual Texans, businesses, and state government. Specifically, the committee shall: Examine the interaction of specific factors of health care affordability such as transparency, competition, and patient incentives. Make recommendations to expand access to health care price information to allow consumers to make informed decisions regarding their care; Examine the impact of government benefit, administrative, and contractual mandates imposed upon private insurance companies and their impact on employer and consumer premiums and out-of-pocket costs, including the effects of specific benefit and any-willing-provider requirements. Make recommendations for state and agency level mandates and regulations that could be relaxed or repealed to increase the availability and affordability of private health coverage options in this state; and Review access to and affordability of prescription drugs.
2.	Monitor the implementation of, and compliance with, current price transparency requirements and study ways that the state can support patients and increase competition. Make legislative and administrative recommendations, as appropriate.
3.	Evaluate innovative, fiscally positive options to ensure that Texans have access to affordable, quality, and comprehensive health care, with an emphasis on reaching low income and at-risk populations. The evaluation should include a study of strategies other states and organizations have implemented or proposed to address health care access and affordability. Make recommendations to increase primary health care access points in Texas.
4.	Study ways to improve outreach to families with children who are eligible for, but not enrolled in, Medicaid or CHIP, including children in rural areas.
5.	Examine the potential impact of delayed care on the state's health care delivery system, health care costs, and patient health outcomes, as well as best practices for getting patients with foregone or delayed health interventions back into the health care system. The study should consider patient delays in obtaining preventive and primary health services, such as well-child care, prenatal care, screenings for cancer and chronic disease, behavioral health, and immunizations, in addition to delays in seeking urgent care or care for chronic illness.
Supporting documents
Committee:	Senate Human Resources
Title:	SR 692
Library Call Number:	SR 692
Session:	66th R.S. (1979)
Online version:	View document [3 pages  File size: 1,718 kb]
Committee:	Senate Human Resources Subcommittee on Public Health and Welfare
Title:	Interim Report - Health Screenings
Library Catalog Title:	Report on health screening / by the Subcommittee on Public Health, Senate Human Resources Committee.
Subjects:	Children's health care | Medical screening |
Library Call Number:	L1836.66 h350s
Session:	66th R.S. (1979)
Online version:	View report [29 pages  File size: 906 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Study the means of coordinating all health screening programs for children where such screening programs are currently provided by several local and state agencies.
Committee:	House Social Services
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Report of the House Committee on Social Services to the Texas Legislature.
Subjects:	Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Texas Commission on | Blind, Texas Commission for the | Corrections, Texas Department of | Deaf and hard of hearing | Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Texas Commission for the | Early childhood intervention | Juvenile justice system | Long-term care | Medical screening | Pardons and Paroles, Texas Board of | Prison population | Rehabilitation Commission, Texas | Senior citizens | Visually impaired persons |
Library Call Number:	L1836.64 so13
Session:	64th R.S. (1975)
Online version:	View report [69 pages  File size: 2,443 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Evaluate the delivery of social services to the elderly, the hearing impaired, and to young children. *
2.	Oversee the operations of the Texas Rehabilitation Commission, the Commission for the Blind, and the Commission on Alcoholism. *
3.	Oversee the operations of the Texas Youth Council. *
4.	Review potential responses to increasing prison populations. *

* This represents an abstract of the report contents. Charge text is incomplete or unavailable.

Information on this website is provided as a public service by the Legislative Reference Library. The Legislative Reference Library makes no representation as to its completeness or accuracy and makes no warranty in regard to its use. Users assume all risk of reliance on the information included on this site.