Against a backdrop of rising health insurance premiums and emergency rooms providing basic care for the uninsured, HHSC is moving forward with an ambitious effort to reform health care in Texas.
[Health care reform]
Medicaid clients and health care providers like it. Stakeholders give it their thumbs-up. The technology has withstood rigorous pilot testing. Now the new Medicaid Access Card is ready for implementation throughout Texas.
[Medicaid I.D. ]
Medicaid providers need to be aware of two recent federal changes involving the National Drug Code and the National Provider Identifier that can affect their claims.
[New rules]
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced a deadline of April 1, 2008, for Medicaid providers to begin using tamper-resistant prescription pads.
[Prescription pads]
For Texas Medicaid providers and those who provide services through the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), January marks the beginning of a new federal exercise for measuring the accuracy of payments for health care services.
[Payment review]
The first meeting has been scheduled for the new Committee on Pediatric Centers of Excellence.
[New committee]
As enrollment for Integrated Care Management continues in the Dallas/Tarrant service area, those who will receive services through the program are looking at the benefits that will be available starting as early as February 2008.
[Integrated care]
Need Medicaid provider? Check the Web
A new online tool is making it easier to find information about Medicaid providers. Basic Provider Search is a new web-based directory launched by HHSC, the Department of State Health Services and the Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership (TMHP).
[Online tool]
Cecile Young is HHSC’s new associate commissioner for Health Coordination and Consumer Services. She started her new role on Oct. 22.
[New leader]
In the news business, it’s referred to as “news you can use.” HHSC is launching a new weekly newspaper column to help spread the word about the many services available through the state’s five health and human services agencies.
[Health Matters]
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When: 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 14, 2008
Where: Brown-Heatly Building Public Hearing Room
4900 N. Lamar Blvd.
Austin, TX 78751
Agenda | Overview | Contact | Handouts
Dial your way to HHSC Stakeholder Forum
For those who are not able to attend HHSC’s Austin stakeholder forum, access to the forum’s information and speakers is as close as your desktop.
From 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16, HHSC will host a desktop stakeholder forum, featuring the same presentations made at the
Jan. 14 Austin stakeholder forum. All you need to participate in the desktop forum is a telephone and e-mail.
Those who sign up for the
Jan. 16 desktop forum will receive an e-mail with instructions showing how to access the forum conference call and handouts of the forum PowerPoint presentations.
To sign up, e-mail
Questions & Answers
Use the web-based form to submit questions related to the stakeholder forum agenda and HHSC programs. Many questions will be answered during the upcoming forum. Responses to questions with the broadest interest also will be featured in the next issue of In Touch.
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