Today's Committee Meetings on the LRL website is a calendar of interim committee hearings with links to agendas. The following may be helpful resources for upcoming hearings.
May 7th
House Committee on Appropriations - Subcommittee on Article II
Charge: Medicaid trends, implementation of cost-savings initiatives in health and human services, and changes in hospital reimbursement methodology
- Hospital Payment Advisory Committee Meeting Agenda, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, May 3, 2012
- Medicaid Managed Care: Key Data, Trends, and Issues and A Mid-Year State Medicaid Budget Update for FY 2012 & A Look Forward to FY 2013, Kaiser Family Foundation, February 2012
- Medicare & Medicaid Trends in Health Care Sectors, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, last updated March 26, 2012
May 8th
House Committee on Appropriations - Subcommittee on Article III
Charge: Current practices for funding higher education capital construction projects
- Capital Expenditure Plans FY2012-FY2016Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, July 2011
- UTSA to Unveil Details on $120 Million Capital Campaign San Antonio Business Journal, April 12, 2012
- Financing Higher Education in Texas, Legislative Budget Board, January 2011
- State of Texas 2012-2013 Capital Expenditure Plan, Texas Bond Review Board, September 2010
Senate Committee on Health & Human Services
Charge: Cost-containment strategies across the Health and Human Services enterprise
- Health Cost Containment and Efficiencies: NCSL Briefs for State Legislators, National Conference of State Legislatures, updated March 2012
- "In Hopeful Sign, Health Spending Is Flattening Out," New York Times, April 28, 2012
- What Are the Biggest Drivers of Cost in U.S. Healthcare? (issue brief), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, July 2011
Charge: Implementation of health care quality and efficiency initiatives (SB 7, 82nd 1st C.S.), including Medicaid/CHIP quality-based payments, Texas Institute of Health Care Quality and Efficiency, Health Care Collaborative, and others; improving birth outcomes and reducing infant and maternal mortality
- Highlights of the 82nd Texas Legislature, Volume II, Administration, Quality, and Efficiency of Health Care - S.B. 7 (p. 916), Senate Research Center, October 2011
- Medicaid/CHIP Quality-Based Payment Advisory Committee and Briefing Document: Review of Performance Measures to Support a Quality-Based Payment Program, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, February 2012
- Quality-Based Payment and Delivery Reforms in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Annual Report, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, December 2011
- Texas Institute of Health Care Quality and Efficiency Board Members Announced, Texas Organization of Rural & Community Hospitals, March 19, 2012
- Healthy Texas Babies - Infant and Maternal Health Data, Texas Department of State Health Services, last updated April 17, 2012
- Maternal and Child Health, National Conference of State Legislatures, updated January 9, 2012
- State of Texas Children 2012 (p. 7), Center for Public Policy Priorities/Kids Count, April 2012
May 9th
Senate Committee on Health & Human Services
Charge: Mental health system
- Crisis Point: Mental Health Workforce Shortages in Texas, Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, The University of Texas at Austin, March 2011
- Grading the States 2009: A Report on America's Health Care System for Adults with Serious Mental Illness, Texas report, National Alliance on Mental Illness, March 2009
- Interactive: Texas' Shortage of Psychiatrists, Mental Health Workers and Mental Health Workforce Shortage More Critical in Minority Communities, Texas Tribune, December 2011
- Mental Health: A Survey of State-Funded Delivery, Texas Public Policy Foundation, November 2011
