Issue Position: Health Care

Issue Position

House Bill 72 allows adoptive parents continued access to intensive Medicaid services post-adoption for a child with a chronic health condition, and establishes a program that protects the continuity of care for each child following adoption.

House Bill 475 ensures pregnant and parenting youth in foster care receive basic parenting education and services to help preserve and strengthen their families.

Senate Bill 750 evaluates and develop a limited postpartum care package for new mothers enrolled in the Healthy Texas Women (HTW) program and to develop strategies to ensure continuity of care for new mothers who transition from Medicaid for Pregnant Women into HTW.

Senate Bill 1096 improves medication access for kids with disabilities by prohibiting prior authorizations or any other barriers from being used to negatively impact a child's access to care and streamlines the prior authorization process when a child is hospitalized.

Senate Bill 1207 increases access to resources and information for families' of medically fragile children in Medicaid, establishes an independent review of managed care decisions and puts greater protections in place for medically fragile kids and their families.

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