Reports and Presentations

Note: These files are in PDF format unless otherwise noted.

December 31, 2020

Texas Integrated Eligibility Redesign System (TIERS) Rider 165 Quarterly Report - Fiscal Year 2021 1st quarter

Quarterly Rider 165 report for TIERS reflecting actual expenditures, cost savings, and accomplishments.

Quarterly Therapy Access Monitoring Report - December 2020

The eighth quarterly report with analysis of selected data related to pediatric acute care therapy services (including physical, occupational, and speech therapies) and assessment of impact on access to care.

December 21, 2020

Legislative Report on Suicide and Suicide Prevention in Texas

This report identifies opportunities and makes recommendations for each of the state agencies and institutions on the Statewide Behavioral Health Coordinating Council regarding improving data collection for suicide-related events, using data to inform decisions and policy development relating to suicide prevention, and decreasing suicide in Texas.

December 18, 2020

Funds Recouped from Local Authorities in Fiscal Year 2020

This report shows funds recouped from local authorities in fiscal year 2020 including the amount of the recoupment by strategy; the reasons for the recoupment; the local authorities involved; and any contract requirements not met.

December 16, 2020

Report on the Mental Health for Veterans Grant Program, 2020

S.B. 55, 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, created the Texas Veterans + Family Alliance (TV+FA) grant program. Since the program was established, HHSC has implemented five grant phases.

December 14, 2020

Statewide Initiatives to Improve Quality of Maternal Health Care 2020

This report describes the statewide initiatives that HHSC will require managed care organizations to implement to improve quality of maternal health care in Texas.

December 7, 2020

State Efforts to Address Maternal Mortality and Morbidity in Texas 2020

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the Texas Health and Human Services system’s strategies, programs, and initiatives to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity.

December 3, 2020

Texas Hospital Uncompensated Care Report, 2020

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.

Report on Medicaid Coverage for Former Foster Children 2020

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.

HB 4533 Spell of Illness Report

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.