Reports and Presentations

This report provides findings and recommendations from the 2019 utilization review of the STAR+PLUS Managed Care program.

This report is issued by the Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman to describe the program's activities, including complaint resolution on behalf of nursing and assisted living facility residents. It contains recommendations from the office regarding the rights, care and other issues related to residents.

This is a report on the impact of patient- specific and lump- sum supplemental payment funding used to offset hospital uncompensated care costs, the impact of health care reform efforts on the funding streams that reimburse uncompensated care, and the future of these funding streams.

This report documents the number of youth formerly in foster care who do not renew their Medicaid and therefore do not maintain continuous health coverage until age 26 and includes recommendations to improve the rate of youth formerly in foster care who maintain continuous health care coverage.

The HB 4533 Spell of Illness Report focuses on the 30-day limitation on reimbursement for inpatient hospital care provided to Medicaid recipients enrolled in the STAR_PLUS Medicaid managed care program under 1 T.A.C. Section 354.1072(a)(1) and other applicable law.

The Statewide Behavioral Health Strategic Plan Progress Report for Fiscal Year 2020 is prepared by the Statewide Behavioral Health Coordinating Council and discusses fiscal year 2020 progress and successes related to implementation of the Statewide Behavioral Health Strategic Plan.

This report outlines the implementation of a pilot program to allow a pregnant woman enrolled in STAR to bring her children with her when using certain nonemergency medical transportation services.

This report provides an update on implementation of the Pediatric Tele-Connectivity Resource Program for Rural Texas, stakeholder response to the new resource program, the related telemedicine pilot project, HHSC’s next steps, and an update on the telemedicine landscape from the rural healthcare provider perspective.

This report documents improvements made to the 2-1-1 Texas Information and Referral Network system, including improvements to disaster response, system integration and effectiveness, data transparency, communication modalities, and specialized outreach. The improvements further modernize the statewide system of providing information and referrals to Texans in times of need, including disasters and other related events.

This report provides an inventory of programs in Texas that provide incentives for the purchase of eligible fruits or vegetables under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and offers recommendations on increasing the number and availability of such programs.

To fulfill Rider 38, HHSC has analyzed Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Program (DSRIP) data for demonstration years 7-8 and reported on outcomes achieved by DSRIP performing providers.

HHSC evaluated variation in service delivery to individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) by managed care organization (MCO).

This report was prepared by the Mental Health Condition and Substance Use Disorder Parity Workgroup, and highlights the workgroup's activities and implementation of legislative directives toward development of the MHCSUD Strategic Plan.

The report presents the work of the Ombudsman for Children and Youth in Foster Care for FY2020.

The report complies with Section 531.0991(k) and evaluates the success of the community mental health matching grant program.

This report discusses regional plans from groups of Local Mental Health Authorities and Local Behavioral Health Authorities (LMHA/LBHAs) serving counties with a population of 250,000 or less. These plans are designed to increase the capacity of LMHA/LBHA in providing access to mental health services while reducing the cost associated with various metrics.

This report implements requirements to identify valid and reliable tools and assessments to evaluate the language acquisition of children eight years of age or younger who are deaf or hard of hearing, and to annually gather and report on the results of those assessments on the Texas Education Agency, HHSC and Texas School for the Deaf websites no later than December 1, 2020, and then on August 31 of each year thereafter. This initial report documents the implementation actions to date. Download the Language Acquisition for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students 0-8 Years of Age Report (PDF).

This annual report builds on the previous annual report, submitted in December 2019, which provided outcomes related to transitioning children and young adults enrolled in the Medically Dependent Children Program (MDCP) into the STAR Kids capitated managed care program.

This report addresses requirements in Health and Safety Code §553.0515(e) which provides activities to update the bed-day allocation methodology and utilization review protocol; the outcomes of the implementation of the bed-day allocation methodology by region; as well as any recommendations of HHSC or the Joint Committee on Access and Forensic Services (JCAFS) to enhance the effective and efficient allocation of state-funded hospital beds.

This report was created by the council members of the Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Advisory Council and includes recommendations to the Texas Legislature on various policy issues.

Texas statute requires an annual report on the activities of the Mental Health Program for Veterans. This report describes the program's activities for fiscal year 2020.

This report documents federal audits of covered entities located in Texas during fiscal year 2020 and new safeguards implemented by HHS for protected health information during fiscal year 2020.

The 2020 Alternatives to Abortion Report includes: an introduction to the HHSC A2A program, the total number of A2A providers, total number of unduplicated clients served by each provider, a description of A2A outreach efforts by providers and HHSC, total expenditures by method of financing, total contract amounts by provider, and outcome measures included in contracts with providers.

Annual contractor compliance report that provides updates regarding contract compliance and monitoring. The attached report details contract awards and monitoring activities conducted by program staff between October 1, 2019 and September 30, 2020.

This report addresses requirements in Health and Safety Code §614.013 and §614.017. Health and Safety Code §614.013 and §614.017 requires HHSC to submit a report to the Legislative Budget Board no later than September 1 of each fiscal year its efforts to facilitate the exchange of information between agencies. The report must include but is not limited to: the manner in which information is exchanged between agencies, the frequency with which information is exchanged, the type of information most frequently exchanged, and the agencies most frequently involved in the exchange of information.