If you’re interested in health and human services in Texas, you might be interested in being a member of the STAR Kids Managed Care Advisory Committee.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission executive commissioner will appoint a member to the committee to serve a term expiring Dec. 31, 2019. Applications are due by 11:59 p.m., Sept. 25.
HHSC will consider the applicants’ qualifications, background and interest in serving on the committee. HHSC also tries to choose committee members who, as a whole, represent the diversity of all Texans. For that reason, HHSC considers applicants’ ethnicity, gender and geographic location.
You may submit the application by email, mail or fax.
Email: HHS_Appointments@hhsc.state.tx.us
Attn: Cassandra Marx
Mail: Texas Health and Human Services Commission
4900 N. Lamar Blvd.
Mail Code 0223
Austin, TX 78751
Attn: Cassandra Marx
Fax: (512) 706-7240
Attn: Cassandra Marx
HHSC will notify applicants by Nov. 1, if they have been selected.
About the STAR Kids Managed Care Advisory Committee
The committee addresses issues and produces formal recommendations to HHSC on how to provide tailored services for children with disabilities on Medicaid in order to improve coordination and customization of care, access to care, health outcomes, cost containment and quality of care. The Committee also advises HHSC on the establishment and ongoing implementation of the STAR Kids Medicaid managed care program. The committee will include key stakeholders as determined by the HHSC executive commissioner. The committee must include representatives of each of the following:
- Families whose children receive private duty nursing under the program;
- Health care providers;
- Providers of home and community-based services, including at least one private duty nursing provider and one pediatric therapy provider; and
- Other stakeholders as the HHSC Executive Commissioner determines appropriate.
A STAR Kids Managed Care Advisory Committee member must regularly participate in committee meetings and may also participate in other meetings as business dictates. Committee meetings will be held at least quarterly in Austin or at the call of the presiding officer. Committee members will not receive reimbursement for travel expenses to and from Committee meetings.
To Learn More
For more information about the Committee, contact Phyllis Matthews at Phyllis.Matthews02@hhsc.state.tx.us or visit https://hhs.texas.gov/about-hhs/leadership/health-human-services-commission-executive-council.
For more information about applying to be on the Committee, contact Cassandra Marx at HHS_appointments@hhsc.state.tx.us.