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agenda
September 26, 2005

9:30 am
Introduction

Neal Lane, Chairman

  • Introduction of Task Force Charge
10:00 am
Welcome Panel

Kern Wildenthal, M.D., Ph.D
President, UT Southwestern Medical School

Ron Anderson, M.D.
President & CEO, Dallas County Hospital District

Margaret Keliher, J.D.
Dallas County Judge

10:30 am
Discussion
10:45 am
Public Comment Session
11:00 am
Adjourn Public Session
11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:15 am
Consequences Subcommittee

Shine

  • Draft of Chapter
  • Comments and Suggestions

12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Delivery Subcommittee

Mechler

  • Local Initiatives White Paper
  • Mexico-U.S. Initiative (Balcazar)

2:00 pm
Finance Subcommittee Recommendations

McKinney (Subcommittee Chair)

  • Regional Delivery/ State-Wide Funding
  • Provider Taxes (Equal Health Care Distribution Tax)
    • Nursing Home Tax
    • Hospital Tax
  • 3-Share Program (Local Initiatives)
  • Special Status of Texas as a Border State
  • 1115/1931/Women’s Health Waivers (Warner)
  • Better Management of Medicaid
  • Medicaid Buy-in program

4:00 pm
Coffee Break
4:15 pm
Florida Medicaid Initiative

Hudson (Present)
Stobo (Comment)

  • Managed Health Care
  • Disease Management Programs
  • Application to Texas

4:45 pm
Recommendations

Shine

  • Conclusions and Recommendations
    • Paper outlining recommendations by Shine
  • Out of the Box Ideas
    • Texas Health Corp
    • Virtual HMO

6:00 pm
Adjourn
7:15 pm
Dinner



agenda
September 27, 2005
Closed Work Session

9:00 am
Recommendation

Lane

  • Revisit topics addressed on Monday
10:00 am
White Papers

Shine

  • Education and Health (Linder)
  • Trauma (Begley)
  • State Regulation (Rosenbaum)

11:15 am
Coffee Break
11:30 am
Discussions

Lane

  • Organization of the Report Outline
    • New outline
    • Using white papers as sections or chapter
    • Additional sections
  • Draft of Introductory Chapters

1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Adjourn