Reports and Presentations
Note: These files are in PDF format unless otherwise noted.
February 27, 2023
This presentation provides an overview of HHS's mission, vision, organizational structure, and key functions. It covers key budget drivers and highlights of House Bill 1. It also summarizes the agency's exceptional item requests as well as caseload and cost growth trends.
February 15, 2023
The first presentation provides an overview of Medicaid and CHIP Services in Texas. The second presentation covers HHSC’s plan for ending continuous Medicaid coverage, including background, federal guidance, and a timeline.
February 14, 2023
This presentation covers Mental Health Services in Texas. It includes an overview of mental health appropriations and services, as well as COVID-19 funding. Topics covered include prevention and early intervention, community-based treatment and recovery, and community-based crisis response. It also addresses inpatient acute care, including contracted private psychiatric beds, community mental health hospital beds, and state hospital beds.
February 10, 2023
This presentation provides an overview of HHS's mission, vision, organizational structure, and key functions. It covers key budget drivers and a summary of Senate Bill 1. It also summarizes the agency's exceptional item requests as well as caseload and cost growth trends.
January 18, 2023
The Texas Health and Safety Code, Chapter 260 governing boarding home facilities Section 260.003, requires the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) to develop and publish model standards for the operations of a boarding home facility, and it specifies that these standards must address elements such as construction, fire safety, sanitary conditions, reporting and investigation of injuries and incidents, staff education, and assessment of residents.
January 10, 2023
This report documents the results of the annual statewide assessment of the language acquisition of deaf and hard of hearing students from birth through age 8.
December 27, 2022
This report presents findings from a large-scale study on the impacts of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on vulnerable populations in Texas during the first year of the pandemic.
December 16, 2022
This third biennial submission of the Pediatric Tele-Connectivity Resource Program for Rural Texas (Pedi Tele-Conn Program) report includes updated and new information (since the December 2020 report) on grants awarded to nonurban healthcare facilities to implement telemedicine services that connect these facilities to pediatric specialists and pediatric subspecialists who provide telemedicine services. The report discusses the outcome of 2020-21 biennium grants program projects, responses to the 2022-23 biennium grants program request for applications (RFA), and program implementation challenges and lessons learned.
December 6, 2022
Value-Based Payment and Quality Improvement Advisory Committee Recommendations to the 88th legislature.
November 10, 2022
This report summarizes the transition of directed payment programs from the Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program. It also lists five recommendations for financial stability throughout the DSRIP transition.