Bill Text: TX SB2279 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for multisystemic therapy services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-22 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB2279 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2279-Introduced.html
| 88R5909 SCP-D | ||
| By: Blanco | S.B. No. 2279 | |
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| relating to Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for multisystemic | ||
| therapy services. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 32.024, Human Resources Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subsection (oo-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (oo-1) The commission shall ensure that medical assistance | ||
| reimbursement is provided to a health care provider who provides | ||
| services classified as multisystemic therapy by the Healthcare | ||
| Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) code to a recipient under | ||
| the medical assistance program. The executive commissioner shall | ||
| establish a separate provider type for multisystemic therapy | ||
| providers for purposes of enrollment as a provider for and | ||
| reimbursement under the medical assistance program. | ||
| 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 September 1, 2023. | ||
