Telemedicine breaks down care barriers
Rather than paying $2,000 at an emergency room, people using telemedicine typically pay closer to $40 per encounter, which is a huge cost savings.
Rather than paying $2,000 at an emergency room, people using telemedicine typically pay closer to $40 per encounter, which is a huge cost savings.
Texas is dead last in the nation in access to health care and in expanding the use of innovative technology, like telemedicine, to meet that need.
Instead of making IMDs Medicaid-reimbursable, the federal government should give states more flexibility to use Medicaid dollars more effectively.
Instead of handouts, we should focus on services that enable and encourage change. Our current approach makes it difficult for people to change their lives because it makes them dependent on government services, often enabling them to continue harmful behaviors.
Most people suffering from mental illness have no more propensity to violence that the average person.
"Testimony: Sunset Bill for DSHS" is Kate Murphy's testimony before the House Human Services Committee in support of HB 2510.
With 1.7 million veterans calling Texas home — more than every other state except California — this is the place where bold policies designed to help brave military men and women can be a model for other states.
When the Food and Drug Administration approved the first antipsychotic, Thorazine, in 1954, mental health service providers hoped this drug would revolutionize mental health care. Finally, scientists had created a pharmaceutical that would cure the mentally ill. But as researchers have studied psychosis, they have learned that antipsychotics do not address the root causes...
Murphy: [T]he state agency tasked with public health, the Texas Department of State Health Services... is in dire need of reform.