Bill Text: TX HB2582 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to required notice of the cost and health benefit plan coverage of newborn screening tests.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-16 - Companion considered in lieu of in committee [HB2582 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2582-Introduced.html
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By: Lucio III | H.B. No. 2582 |
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relating to required notice of the cost and health benefit plan | ||
coverage of newborn screening tests. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 33, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 33.019 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 33.019. NOTICE OF COST. (a) The department shall | ||
publish on its Internet website the cost of a newborn screening test | ||
kit to be used to comply with the test requirements of Section | ||
33.011. | ||
(b) The department may change the cost published under | ||
Subsection (a) not later than the 90th day before the date the | ||
department publishes notice of the change on its Internet website. | ||
If the department changes the cost under this subsection, the | ||
department shall retain a record of the previous cost until the | ||
first anniversary of the date of the change. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 1271.154, Insurance Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1271.154. WELL-CHILD CARE FROM BIRTH. (a) In this | ||
section, "well-child care from birth" has the meaning used under | ||
Section 1302, Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. Section 300e-1), | ||
and its subsequent amendments. The term includes administration of | ||
newborn screening required by the [ |
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Health Services and the cost of the newborn screening test kit | ||
described by Section 33.019, Health and Safety Code. | ||
(b) A health maintenance organization shall ensure that | ||
each health care plan provided by the health maintenance | ||
organization includes well-child care from birth that complies | ||
with: | ||
(1) federal requirements adopted under Chapter XI, | ||
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. Section 300e et seq.), and its | ||
subsequent amendments; and | ||
(2) the rules adopted by the executive commissioner | ||
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implement those requirements, including rules on the cost of the | ||
newborn screening test kit described by Section 33.019, Health and | ||
Safety Code. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 1367.003, Insurance Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1367.003. CERTAIN LIMITATIONS ON COVERAGE FOR NEWBORN | ||
CHILDREN PROHIBITED. A health benefit plan that provides maternity | ||
benefits or accident and health coverage for additional newborn | ||
children may not be issued in this state if the plan excludes or | ||
limits: | ||
(1) initial coverage of a newborn child for a period of | ||
time; [ |
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(2) coverage for congenital defects of a newborn | ||
child; or | ||
(3) coverage for administration of the newborn | ||
screening tests required by Section 33.011, Health and Safety Code, | ||
including for the cost of a newborn screening test kit in the amount | ||
provided by the Department of State Health Services on its Internet | ||
website under Section 33.019 of that code on the date the test was | ||
administered. | ||
SECTION 4. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
Services Commission shall adopt rules necessary to implement this | ||
Act. | ||
SECTION 5. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a health benefit plan delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed | ||
on or after January 1, 2020. A health benefit plan delivered, issued | ||
for delivery, or renewed before January 1, 2020, is governed by the | ||
law as it existed immediately before the effective date of this Act, | ||
and that law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |