Bill Text: TX HB3680 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the allocation of certain Medicaid supplemental hospital payments by the Health and Human Services Commission.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-10 - Left pending in committee [HB3680 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3680-Introduced.html
By: Kolkhorst | H.B. No. 3680 |
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relating to the allocation of certain Medicaid supplemental | ||
hospital payments by the Health and Human Services Commission. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 32.0283 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 32.0283. ALLOCATION OF SUPPLEMENTAL HOSPITAL | ||
PAYMENTS. (a) Definitions. In this section, | ||
(1) "Public hospital" means a hospital that is authorized to | ||
transfer funds to the state for use as the state share of Medicaid | ||
payments under a supplemental hospital payment program, including a | ||
hospital described in Section 32.031(e). | ||
(2) "Supplemental hospital payment program" means a program | ||
administered by the commission pursuant to state or federal law | ||
that authorizes payments of state and federal funds above standard | ||
Medicaid payments to eligible hospitals, including, but not limited | ||
to: | ||
(A) the disproportionate share hospital program | ||
administered pursuant to 42 U.S.C. Section 1396r-4a; | ||
(B) a Medicaid Upper Payment Limit program or its | ||
successor; or | ||
(C) a waiver granted by the Secretary of H | ||
ealth and | ||
Human Services under the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. Section | ||
1396, et seq., including the Medicaid Transformation Waiver issued | ||
under § 1115 of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. Section 1315. | ||
(b) Out of funds transferred to the state by a public | ||
hospital, a county, or other unit of local government for purposes | ||
of supplying the state share of a supplemental hospital payment | ||
program payment, the commission shall make such payments in the | ||
following order: | ||
(1) disproportionate share hospital program payments, which | ||
shall be paid to all eligible hospitals before a payment under any | ||
other supplemental hospital payment program may be made; and | ||
(2) payments under the Medicaid Upper Payment Limit program | ||
or its successor, which shall be paid using Medicaid inpatient days | ||
or another reliable indicator of Medicaid utilization established | ||
by the commission. | ||
SECTION 2. If before implementing any provision of this Act | ||
a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a | ||
federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, | ||
the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or | ||
authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the | ||
waiver or authorization is granted. | ||
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, 2013. |