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A Texas health commission employee was fired. Then she received the private information of more than 100 clients.

Tracy Ryans pulls out client applications containing private information that was mistakenly sent to her from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, on April 24, 2018. Pu Ying Huang for The Texas Tribune. By Marissa Evans, The Texas Tribune April 25, 2018 Tracy Ryans got mail — straight from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, including a box full of state assistance application forms with hundreds of people’s social security card numbers, green card certificates, billing statements, check stubs and photocopies of driver’s licenses. HHSC wasn’t supposed to have sent … [Read More...]

Texas Medicaid Dental Maintenance Organization Annual Survey 2018

UPDATE: April 20:  NEW SURVEY IS OPEN After reviewing the responses from the previous version of the survey, we closed it because there was a large amount of doubt about the veracity of some of the answers provided.  The largest indicator was that 46% of those claiming they were Medicaid dentists did NOT want to see any more dental management … [Read More...]

Texas Health Official Resigns Amid Contracting Errors

Heather Griffith Peterson has resigned from her job as chief operating officer for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. Texas Health and Human Services Yoiks, here we are again.By Marissa Evans, The Texas Tribune April 18, 2018 The state official who oversees information technology and contracting at the Texas Health and Human … [Read More...]

State auditor finds more contracting errors made by health agencies

Charles Smith of the Texas Department of Health and Human Services testifies Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017, to the House Committees on Human Services and Public Health at the Capitol.   Bob Daemmrich for the Texas Tribune. Texas HHS still hasn't learned its lesson about contracting, from before Jack Stick and 21CT until today.  Three people have already … [Read More...]

DMO Request for Proposals Coming?

TDMR has been asked several times recently if we have any knowledge of an upcoming RFP (request for proposals) for dental management organizations.  There have been rumors flying around for well over a year now that Texas Health and Human Services would be putting out such an RFP at some point. Back in the day, late 2016, we even talked with … [Read More...]

The United States Dental Association Is Forming!

Dental care for kids who need it

TDMR has been asked to inform its readers that a new association of dentists is in the process of being formed. The new association is to be called the United States Dental Association. Among the founding members of the new organization are Drs. Juan Villarreal and Robert Anderton.  Dr. Villarreal is the founder of TDMR, author of "Truth Decay" … [Read More...]

Bye-bye Xerox, Hello Fuji

Two days ago, the iconic and troubled American corporation Xerox was sold to Japan's Fujifilm for $6.3 billion dollars, ending its solo history in this country. Losing money, under pressure The new company will be known as Fuji Xerox and, per Reuters, "become a subsidiary of Fujifilm, with dual headquarters in the United States and Japan, and … [Read More...]

“Truth Decay” One Year Later

In January of last year, Dr. Juan Villarreal's long-awaited book "Truth Decay: How Government Corruption Caused a Political Scandal Victimizing Texas Dentists and How It Could Happen to You!" was released on Amazon.com.     "Truth Decay" details Dr. Villarreal's personal struggles and victories … [Read More...]

UPDATED: Xerox Goes After Dentists to the Texas Supreme Court

UPDATE: Arguments in this case were heard by the Supreme Court on Wednesday, December 6. The 39-minute video of the oral arguments is here. The court's decision is not expected until spring of next year. As a heads up for dentists across the state, it appears there is a long shot possibility that … [Read More...]

Equifax and the Small Health Care Provider

By TDMR President Gregory Ewing On September 7, 2017, Equifax, one of the nation’s three credit-reporting companies reported that it had discovered a cybersecurity breach that compromised the personal information of as many as 143 million Americans, roughly half of the population of the United … [Read More...]

Texas Health and Human Services Losing Executive Staff

According to a story in today's Texas Tribune, a large number of experienced executive staff of Texas Health and Human Services have exited the mega-agency due to conflicts with current Executive Commissioner Charles Smith.  So far,  these include, according to the Tribune,  Jami Snyder, chief … [Read More...]

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