A Progress Report on Texas and its actions in meeting the protection of patients in the healthcare sector focuses on five principles. These patient-centered principles include non-discrimination, transparency, state oversight, uniformity, and continuity of care.

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2. A Progress Report on Texas and its actions in meeting the protection of patients in the
healthcare sector focuses on five principles. These patient-centered principles include
non-discrimination, transparency, state oversight, uniformity, and continuity of care.
The first principle, non-discrimination, ensures that all Texans are to receive the
appropriate health care. An example can be made of the insurance market. There are no
actions limiting discrimination and the costs of insurance plans are higher in recent
years. Although, there are specific insurance offerings and state legislation recently
enacted a requisite for insurance commissioners to adopt network adequacy standards
to improve accessibility. In this regard, Texas is performing according to the average.
Transparency, the second principle, promotes a patient’s access to information. The
state of Texas lacks contracting requirements that aim to boost information
transparency. Relative to other states, this makes Texas a low-performing state.

3. The third principle, state oversight, meanwhile, ensures that health insurance exchange
plans have the necessary requirements. There have been fourteen healthcare insurance
carriers last year, proving beneficial to Texans. The drawbacks here, though, are the
state’s passive purchasing and the absence of action in implementing contracting
requirements. The metrics rank Texas as an average-performing state when it comes to
oversight.
The fourth and fifth principles, uniformity and continuity of care, involve Texas and the
state’s non-action. Uniformity involves the creation of standards, so patients can easily
understand and compare healthcare plans. There has been no action in standardizing
benefit designs and the display of plan information. Continuity of care, on the one hand,
is the broadening of coverage and protection of patients transitioning between plans.
The state, too, has no action on the continuity-of-care requirement.

4. Resources:
 http://essdoc.com/ess-programs/hospitalist/
 http://www.nationalhealthcouncil.org/sites/default/files/Texas.pdf
 https://www.texastribune.org/2016/11/21/q-michael-heffernan/
Texas is performing on an average level in the healthcare market when the patient is
the center of focus. The Texas Tribune, for instance, provides a feature on Michael
Heffernan, the director of GuidaBot LLC Research & Development. Currently in the
process of developing a robotic arm that will better the operations of an MRI machine,
this can impact healthcare in many ways and improve patient-centeredness.