Contents tagged with capitol update

• CAPITOL UPDATE: Lege strengthens physician workforce, improves women’s health care, and reduces administrative hassles for physicians

  Tags: capitol update, legislative update, legislature, 83rd, graduate medical education, residency, workforce, physician education loan repayment program, texas higher education coordinating board, women's health, texas women's healthcare coalition, mental health, prior authorization, medicaid, affordable care act, physician of the day, sulaiman, freeman, voss, sepdham, mangalick, edwards, estment, fiesinger, sadoun, redman, kadir

  Monday, June 10, 2013 11:16:00 AM

  Capitol Update: Lege strengthens physician workforce, improves women’s health care, and reduces administrative hassles for physicians

  posted 06.11.13

  The 83rd Texas Legislature finished the … more

• CAPITOL UPDATE: Watch TAFP's Capitol Report for May 9, 2013

  Tags: tafp, news, capitol report, capitol update, legislature, advocacy, texas women's healthcare coalition, wang, davis, howard, zerwas, nelson, realini, hawkins, texas higher education coordinating board, residency, physician of the day, wettermark, ramirez, kalra, medrano, duchicela, mccurdy, seymour, benavides, baumer, siy, dominguez

  Wednesday, May 8, 2013 1:56:00 PM

  Capitol Update: Watch latest report on TAFP’s priorities in the 83rd Texas Legislature

  posted 05.09.13

  In this edition of TAFP’s video newscast, Capitol Report, catch up on the progress of TAFP’s … more

• CAPITOL UPDATE: Senate passes bill to increase residency slots

  Tags: capitol update, capitol, legislature, senate, higher education, bill, nelson, fiesinger, graduate medical education, physician of the day, residency, medicaid, women's health, shortage, curran, budget, realini, ortiz, lawrence, frederick, swegler, bander, margo, freeman, sprute

  Tuesday, April 23, 2013 11:42:00 AM

  Capitol Update: Senate passes bill to increase residency slots

  posted 04.24.13

  The Senate passed legislation last week proposed by Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, that will strengthen the … more

• Senate Bill 143 unanimously approved

  Tags: capitol update, capitol, legislature, senate, higher education, bill, nelson, fiesinger, graduate medical education, physician of the day, residency, medicaid, women's health, shortage, duperval-brownlee, nuckols, eidson, stoltz, giannone, guerra, reardon, egerton, merian, hugman, hadley, palafox, berg, baumer

  Tuesday, April 2, 2013 2:15:00 PM

  Capitol Update: Senate committee approves bill to increase access to primary care

  posted 04.03.13

  The Senate Committee on Higher Education approved Senate Bill 143 Wednesday, April 3, which would … more

• CAPITOL UPDATE: Watch TAFP's Capitol Report for March 13, 2013

  Tags: tafp, news, capitol report, capitol update, legislature, advocacy, physician of the day

  Tuesday, March 12, 2013 11:54:00 AM

  Capitol Update: Watch TAFP’s Capitol Report

  posted 03.13.13

  Lawmakers filed more than 2,300 bills last week before the first major deadline in the 83rd Texas Legislature. After the session’s 60th … more

• CAPITOL UPDATE: TAFP Board of Directors unanimously supports Medicaid expansion

  Tags: capitol, capitol update, legislature, legislative update, physician of the day, graduate medical education, interim session, commission, board of directors, medicaid, fiesinger, affordable care act, women's health, advocacy, gabler, botsford, risinger, lyons, trestor, benavides

  Wednesday, March 6, 2013 2:33:00 PM

  Capitol Update: TAFP Board of Directors unanimously supports Medicaid expansion

  posted 03.07.13

  At last weekend’s Interim Session, TAFP’s Commission on Legislative and Public Affairs put forth a … more

• CAPITOL UPDATE: Key House committee explores expansion of residency positions

  Tags: capitol, capitol update, legislature, legislative update, physician of the day, graduate medical education, texas higher education coordinating board, medical school, goertz, residency, egerton, popp, dominguez, macclements, kravitz

  Wednesday, February 27, 2013 8:19:00 AM

  Capitol Update: Key House committee explores expansion of residency positions

  posted 02.28.13

  Graduate medical education is the hot topic du jour of the House Appropriations Committee these days … more

• CAPITOL UPDATE: New coalition advocates for women's health care

  Tags: capitol, capitol update, legislature, legislative update, physician of the day, women's health, realini, howard, davis, department of state health services, family planning, texas women's healthcare coalition, paladugu, finnie, bias, miller, cherry, freeman, barrera, duchicela

  Wednesday, February 13, 2013 2:54:00 PM

  Capitol Update: New coalition advocates for women’s health care

  posted 02.14.13

  View a slideshow from the press conference.

  The new Texas Women’s Healthcare Coalition, of which TAFP is a … more

• CAPITOL UPDATE: Senate Finance considers higher education budget

  Tags: capitol, capitol update, legislature, legislative update, physician of the day, senate, texas higher education coordinating board, finance, graduate medical education, residency, bias, preceptorship, loan repayment, house of representatives, pope, egerton, peron, curran

  Wednesday, January 30, 2013 4:02:00 PM

  Capitol Update: Senate Finance considers higher education budget

  posted 01.31.13

  The Senate Finance Committee heard testimony on article III of the state budget, which contains all funding for … more

• CAPITOL UPDATE: House, Senate lay out base budgets

  Tags: capitol update, legislature, physician of the day, budget, family physician, family medicine, loan repayment, physician education loan repayment program, latham, mcmurry, hawkins, splinter, duchicela, mota, capitol

  Wednesday, January 23, 2013 4:03:00 PM

  Capitol Update: House, Senate lay out base budgets

  posted 01.24.13

  Both the House and the Senate laid out their versions of the budget last week, each maintaining spending at about the same … more

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