Bill Text: TX SB827 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the child health plan and medical assistance programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-05 - Left pending in committee [SB827 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB827-Introduced.html
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| By: Patrick | S.B. No. 827 | |
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| relating to the child health plan and medical assistance programs. | ||
| 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 32.0313 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 32.0313. DENIAL OF REIMBURSEMENT FOR CERTAIN | ||
| PROCEDURES. The department may not reimburse a provider under the | ||
| medical assistance program for a nonmedically indicated cesarean | ||
| section or labor induction performed at a hospital on a woman | ||
| earlier than the 39th week of gestation. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 161, Human Resources Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 161.086 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 161.086. ELECTRONIC VISIT VERIFICATION SYSTEM. If it | ||
| is cost-effective, the department shall implement an Electronic | ||
| Visit Verification system under appropriate Medicaid programs | ||
| administered by the department that allows providers to | ||
| electronically verify and document basic information relating to | ||
| the delivery of services, including: | ||
| (1) the provider's name; | ||
| (2) the recipient's name; | ||
| (3) the date and time the provider begins and ends the | ||
| delivery of services; and | ||
| (4) the location of service delivery. | ||
| SECTION 3. (a) The Health and Human Services Commission | ||
| shall conduct a study to assess whether it would be feasible and | ||
| cost-effective to implement an asthma self-management training | ||
| program under which children who have asthma and receive benefits | ||
| under the child health plan program under Chapter 62, Health and | ||
| Safety Code, or the medical assistance program under Chapter 32, | ||
| Human Resources Code, may receive home-based asthma education and | ||
| training from persons qualified to provide the education and | ||
| training, including respiratory therapists and individuals | ||
| certified to provide the training by the National Asthma Educator | ||
| Certification Board. The study must: | ||
| (1) analyze whether implementing the training program | ||
| would reduce asthma-related emergency room visits and hospital | ||
| inpatient stays; | ||
| (2) explore the possibility of providing: | ||
| (A) home-based education and training as a | ||
| benefit under the child health plan and medical assistance | ||
| programs; and | ||
| (B) financial incentives through shared savings | ||
| to providers of home-based education and training; and | ||
| (3) assess the likelihood that children and their | ||
| families will use home-based education and training. | ||
| (b) Not later than December 1, 2012, the Health and Human | ||
| Services Commission shall submit a written report containing the | ||
| findings of the study conducted under this section together with | ||
| the commission's recommendations to the standing committees of the | ||
| senate and house of representatives having primary jurisdiction | ||
| over the child health plan and Medicaid programs. | ||
| SECTION 4. Section 533.0025(e), Government Code, is | ||
| repealed. | ||
| SECTION 5. 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 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
