Funding is listed in the state’s General Appropriations Act, signed into law during odd-numbered years. The following amounts are for the fiscal year beginning Sept. 1.
Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS) improvements will provide a system conforming to national standards and eliminating dated processes and technology. HHSC has $66.2 million in its 2025 capital budget for MMIS, up from $64.1 million in 2024.
Additional funded technology in 2025:
- $69.6 million for Texas Integrated Eligibility Redesign System (TIERS) capital projects
- $87.7 million for data center consolidation
- $18.5 million for Centralized Accounting and Payroll/Personnel System (CAPPS)
- $8.6 million for the HHSC cloud data analytics platform
- $2.1 million for business process redesign
HHSC in 2022 outlined its strategic plan for 2023-27, and those documents list tech-related action items with goal dates in the coming year. They include:
- Standardizing data release processes
- Continuing data visualization releases
- Improving IT contract management
