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Committee:	Senate Health and Human Services, Interim
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Texas Senate Interim Committee on Health and Human Services interim report.
Subjects:	Immigration | Medicaid fraud | Medical billing | Prompt payment of insurance claims | Rural issues | Rural population | Senior citizens | Tobacco advertising | Tobacco laws and regulations | Tobacco lawsuit | Tobacco settlement receipts | Underage smoking | Welfare | Welfare fraud | Welfare reform |
Library Call Number:	L1836.75 h349
Session:	75th R.S. (1997)
Online version:	View report [160 pages  File size: 7,598 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Monitor the implementation of SB 30, 75th R.S., passed by the Legislature during the 1997 regular session, regarding fraud and improper payments under state Medicaid and welfare programs. If needed, make recommendations for further legislative and regulatory action.
2.	Develop a plan for oversight of efforts by state health and human services agencies, the Attorney General, and law enforcement agencies, to detect and reduce fraud and improper payments under state Medicaid and welfare programs. The plan should address enforcement and punishment under state and federal civil and criminal laws.
3.	Continue to monitor federal welfare reform, and make recommendations for necessary legislative or regulatory action.
4.	Study the implementation of SB 55, 75th R.S., passed by the Legislature during the 1997 regular session, regarding minors' access to tobacco.
5.	Monitor developments in the federal tobacco settlement discussions and identify potential, fiscal impacts to Texas governments.
6.	Examine the demographic trends of the state that will impact the health and human services delivery system in the future, including immigration, rural concerns, and the aging state population. Make recommendations for research and legislative action, if necessary.
7.	Study current practices in patient billing by Texas hospitals and providers of health care to evaluate the accuracy, clarity and timliness of patient billing. The Committee should examine existing regulatory authority and determine whether there is suficient authority to address problems in patient billings. If necessary, the Committee may make recommendations for standardizing patient billing; ensuring that bills are accurate and complete yet simple enough for patients to understand; providing a meaningful appeals process for incorrect or excessive billings; and establishing guidelines for submission of bill for payment within a reasonable time period.
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:	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)
Online version:	View document [30 pages  File size: 529 kb]
Committee:	House Tarrant County Relief Situation, Special
Title:	Report
Library Catalog Title:	Report
Subjects:	Social service agencies | Tarrant County | Welfare | Welfare fraud | Welfare reform |
Library Call Number:	H.J. of Tex., 44th Leg., 1st C.S. 328 (1935)
Session:	44th R.S. (1935)
Online version:	View report [11 pages  File size: 633 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Investigate thoroughly the relief system and set up as administered in Tarrant County.
2.	Such committee shall give its ideas relative to a better functioning of the Relief system in the saving of time, and providing labor, money, relief for the needy, so that errors can be remedied wherever same may be found to exist; and as to any and all things that such committee may think advisable relative to the scope of this investigation; to bring to the attention of the Legislature all needed or suggested reforms or changes in the Relief Law and administration of the same in the State of Texas.

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