Bill Text: TX SB1518 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the reimbursement of providers for the provision of certain home telemonitoring services under Medicaid.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-14 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB1518 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1518-Introduced.html
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By: Buckingham | S.B. No. 1518 |
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relating to the reimbursement of providers for the provision of | ||
certain home telemonitoring services under Medicaid. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 531.02164, Government Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows: | ||
(c-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (c)(1), the program | ||
required under this section must also provide that home | ||
telemonitoring services are available to pediatric persons who: | ||
(1) are being concurrently treated by at least three | ||
medical specialists; | ||
(2) are diagnosed with end-stage solid organ disease; | ||
(3) have received an organ transplant; or | ||
(4) require mechanical ventilation. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 531.02176, Government Code, is repealed. | ||
SECTION 3. The executive commissioner of the Health and | ||
Human Services Commission shall adopt the rules necessary to | ||
implement Section 531.02164(c-1), Government Code, as added by this | ||
Act, not later than December 1, 2019. | ||
SECTION 4. 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 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |