Posted on · Texas has been grappling with a shortage of doctors and nurses for years. Now a provision of the Affordable Care Act aims to tackle the nursing shortage, and the Texas Medical Center in Houston is set to receive millions of dollars to train more nurses.
Posted on · Now that the Supreme Court has upheld President Obama’s health care law, Texans have been debating whether to expand Medicaid. But there are many parts of the law that are mandatory, not optional. Some say Texas should be implementing more of them now.
Posted on · Reaction continues across the state to Governor Rick Perry's announcement that he doesn't want Texas to expand Medicaid under the national healthcare law. A group of uninsured workers rallied today outside the emergency room at Ben Taub Hospital in the medical center.
Posted on · Texans have been absorbing the news about the historic decision from the Supreme Court, which upholds most of President Obama’s signature health care law, the Affordable Care Act. KUHF Health and Science reporter Carrie Feibel found responses ranging from joy to fear to uncertainty about what comes next.
Posted on · Health insurance companies are getting ready to send out millions of dollars in rebate checks to their customers. Texas consumers and businesses are going to get the biggest chunk of money.
Posted on · Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of U.S. Health and Human Services, visited Houston today. She toured Ben Taub General Hospital and spoke to a national gathering of medical students. She also stepped squarely into the ongoing political debate in Texas over women’s health funding
Posted on · More than three million high school students are smokers, and smoking is now being called a pediatric epidemic. The Surgeon General released a report today on youth smoking, the first big review of the problem since 1994. The report laid out strong evidence that promotion and marketing by tobacco companies causes young people to begin smoking.
Posted on · Starting in 2012, health insurance plans in Texas — and most of the rest of the country — may have to cough up millions of dollars in rebates to customers. The rebates will come from health plans that spend too much on administrative costs instead of medical care. The change is part of the national health overhaul law, the Affordable Care Act.
Posted on · Starting in 2012, health insurance plans in Texas may have to cough up millions of dollars in rebates to customers. The provision is part of the national health reform law, the Affordable Care Act. It will apply to health plans that spend too much on administrative costs instead of medical care. But state officials are quietly working behind the scenes to push back the requirement for a few years.
Posted on · The deal that federal regulators struck with Texas this week to expand managed care coverage for the poor allows both Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican presidential contender, and a Democratic White House to claim victory for their very different healthcare agendas.
Posted on · Texas is fighting to control costs in Medicaid, the insurance program for the poor and disabled. Now the federal government has given the state permission to move almost all Medicaid patients into managed care, as a way to save money. But the new freedoms come with strings attached.
Posted on · A new study of patient demand in Harris County has found that the hospital district is bursting at the seams. Despite opening six new clinics in the past five years, the public health system can't keep up.
Posted on · A federal judge in Virginia ruled today that part of the new federal health care law is unconstitutional. The ruling has no immediate effect and is but one of many court battles being fought over the law. But here in Texas, Attorney General Greg Abbott says he's encouraged by this new development. Carrie Feibel has more.