Contents tagged with higher education

• Missed opportunities in the 84th Texas Legislature

  Tags: legislature, legislative update, 84th, medicaid, banning, medicare, graduate medical education, nelson, zerwas, residency, family medicine residency program, higher education, primary care coalition, texas medical association, preceptorship, bonnen, hancock, direct primary care, schwrtner, crownover, prescription, drug abuse, substance abuse, darby, yogi

  Tuesday, June 2, 2015 4:26:00 PM

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  By Tom Banning
  TAFP CEO/EVP

  Yogi Berra famously said I hate making predictions, especially about the future. It’s particularly painful when those predictions come true as was the case for many of the predictions TAFP made at the outset of the 84th Texas Legislature on how health care issues would fare this session.

  Playing to their primary voters, the House and Senate focused attention almost solely on tax cuts, border security, transportation, when and where you can carry a gun, and a host of other mostly inconsequential partisan ideas.

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• 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

• BCM on the closing of Kelsey-Seybold FMRP: “They just didn’t want to be in the education business”

  Tags: budget, higher education, legislature, family medicine residency program, family physician, graduate medical education

  Friday, February 11, 2011 5:30:00 AM

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  The Senate Finance Committee has held hearings for the past two weeks on every section of the budget, and because so many primary care programs suffered cuts (as did most other programs), many interesting exchanges have come to light. In all the discussions, though, both lawmakers and those testifying agree that primary care is of the utmost importance to ensuring Texans’ access to care.

  Because residency programs play such a large role in producing the primary care physician workforce, here enters Paul Klotman, M.D., president and CEO of Baylor College of Medicine. He testified during the Feb. 8 hearing of the Senate Finance Committee, and Sen. Bob Deuell of Greenville questioned him on the closing of the Baylor College of Medicine Kelsey-Seybold Family Medicine Residency Program. Here’s their exchange.

  Sen. Deuell: A family medicine program closed. What’s your take on that?

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• Capitol Update: HHS Commissioner to Senate Finance: Spare primary care

  Tags: news, legislature, budget, primary care, advocacy, higher education, physician of the day

  Thursday, February 10, 2011 11:13:00 AM

  Capitol Update: HHS Commissioner to Senate Finance: Spare primary care

  posted 02.10.11

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  “No easy choices” in higher ed funding as Senate Finance takes up Article III

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  Straus … more