Bill Text: TX HB1758 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of certain behavioral health services to children, adolescents, and their families under a contract with a managed care organization.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-14 - Referred to Public Health [HB1758 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1758-Introduced.html
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By: Price | H.B. No. 1758 |
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relating to the provision of certain behavioral health services to | ||
children, adolescents, and their families under a contract with a | ||
managed care organization. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 533, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 533.002552 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 533.002552. TARGETED CASE MANAGEMENT AND PSYCHIATRIC | ||
REHABILITATIVE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS, AND FAMILIES. | ||
(a) A provider in the provider network of a managed care | ||
organization that contracts with the commission to provide | ||
behavioral health services under Section 533.00255 may contract | ||
with the managed care organization to provide targeted case | ||
management and psychiatric rehabilitative services to children, | ||
adolescents, and their families. | ||
(b) Commission rules and guidelines concerning contract and | ||
training requirements applicable to the provision of behavioral | ||
health services may apply to a provider that contracts with a | ||
managed care organization under Subsection (a) only to the extent | ||
those contract and training requirements are specific to the | ||
provision of targeted case management and psychiatric | ||
rehabilitative services to children, adolescents, and their | ||
families. | ||
(c) Commission rules and guidelines applicable to a | ||
provider that contracts with a managed care organization under | ||
Subsection (a) may not require the provider to provide a behavioral | ||
health crisis hotline or a mobile crisis team that operates 24 hours | ||
per day and seven days per week. This subsection does not prohibit | ||
a managed care organization that contracts with the commission to | ||
provide behavioral health services under Section 533.00255 from | ||
specifically contracting with a provider for the provision of a | ||
behavioral health crisis hotline or a mobile crisis team that | ||
operates 24 hours per day and seven days per week. | ||
(d) Commission rules and guidelines applicable to a | ||
provider that contracts with a managed care organization to provide | ||
targeted case management and psychiatric rehabilitative services | ||
specific to children and adolescents who are at risk of juvenile | ||
justice involvement, expulsion from school, displacement from the | ||
home, hospitalization, residential treatment, or serious injury to | ||
self, others, or animals may not require the provider to also | ||
provide less intensive psychiatric rehabilitative services | ||
specified by commission rules and guidelines as applicable to the | ||
provision of targeted case management and psychiatric | ||
rehabilitative services to children, adolescents, and their | ||
families, if that provider has a referral arrangement to provide | ||
access to those less intensive psychiatric rehabilitative | ||
services. | ||
(e) Commission rules and guidelines applicable to a | ||
provider that contracts with a managed care organization under | ||
Subsection (a) may not require the provider to provide services not | ||
covered under Medicaid. | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2018, the executive | ||
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall | ||
adopt rules and guidelines or amend existing rules and guidelines | ||
as necessary to comply with the requirements of Section 533.002552, | ||
Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |