Reports and Presentations

Requires all state agencies requesting behavioral health related funding to complete a behavioral health funding schedule. These schedules are included in the applicable agencies' Legislative Appropriations Request and submitted to the HHSC for inclusion in a consolidated behavioral health schedule.

This presentation discusses progress on mental health projects and services funded by the previous legislative session.

Sixth biannual report to provide an overview of HHSC’s efforts to coordinate with providers to identify and implement initiatives designed to reduce Medicaid recipients’ use of emergency room services as a primary means of receiving health care benefits and HHSC’s efforts to encourage Medicaid providers to continue implementing effective interventions and best practices that were developed and achieved under the DSRIP program.

This report requires state agencies that pay for the health care of Texans to coordinate data to identify outliers and improvements for efficiency and quality that can be implemented within each health care system.

The 2024-25 General Appropriations Act, House Bill 1, 88th Legislature, Regular Session, 2023 (Article II, Health and Human Services Commission, Rider 4), directs the Health and Human Services Commission to prepare a report analyzing the costs of state- and federally-funded residential and non-residential services in the Home and Community-based Services (HCS) waiver program, the Texas Home Living waiver program, and Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICFs/IID).

This report evaluates compliance by managed care organizations (MCOs) in allocation of additional funds related to pediatric services and evaluates distinctions in access to care among pediatric age groups, specifically ages 0 to 4 as compared to 5 to 20.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston shall submit annual operating cost to the HHSC for all state contracted inpatient mental health hospital beds funded though Goal D, Additional Health Related Services, and Goal G, Facilities. Click here for Appendix A – Letter Submitted by UTHealth Houston (PDF) and Appendix B – Operational Cost Data Submitted by UTHealth Houston (Excel).

This presentation is an update regarding the transfer of the Prevention and Early Intervention program from DFPS to HHSC.

To assist community collaboratives that bring the public and private sectors together to provide services to persons with a mental illness or substance use disorder experiencing homeless and to help those persons achieve recovery and reintegration within their communities.