Registers: Federal Register Texas Register New Mexico Register Texas Register Part 34. Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiner Chapter 781. Social Worker Licensure Subchapter C. Application and Licensing 22 TAC §781.401 The Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council proposes amendments to §781.401, relating to Qualifications for Licensure. The proposed amendments delete the 48- and […]
Survey Examines Views of Aging and End-of-Live Care In late November, Patient Engagement HIT published “Most Patients Wary of End-of-Life Care, Senior Healthcare Experience.” The article reports on a September survey from the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). NPHI has posted outcomes from the survey. The report, “Views and Experiences of Aging […]
Medpac Holds December Meetings and Makes Recommendations for Changes to Hospice On December 8, MedPAC staff member Kim Neuman offered a presentation titled, “Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments: Hospice services.” Neuman examined “beneficiaries’ access to hospice care, quality of care, hospices’ access to capital, and the relationship between Medicare’s payments and hospices’ costs. […]
Texas Register Governor Greg Abbott Proclamation 41-3941 This proclamation renews the March 13, 2020, disaster proclamation that the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) poses an imminent threat of disaster for all counties in the State of Texas. Read the proclamation. Texas Health and Human Services Commission Notice of Public Hearing on Proposed Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) […]
Hospices React to Article Calling Hospices “A For-Profit Hustle” “Endgame: How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle” is a Propublica article that also appears in New Yorker. It was published online on 11/28, and in the December 5 issue of New Yorker. The piece examines hospices that exploit the hospice benefit and patients in order to […]