Bill Text: TX HB113 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the use of community health workers in Medicaid managed care.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective immediately [HB113 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB113-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 113 |
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relating to the use of community health workers in Medicaid managed | ||
care. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 533, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 533.021 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 533.021. COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS. (a) In this | ||
section, "community health worker" has the meaning assigned by | ||
Section 48.001, Health and Safety Code. | ||
(b) The commission shall allow each Medicaid managed care | ||
organization providing health care services under the STAR Medicaid | ||
managed care program to categorize services provided by a community | ||
health worker as a quality improvement cost, as authorized by | ||
federal law, instead of as an administrative expense. | ||
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, 2023. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 113 was passed by the House on April | ||
14, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 110, Nays 34, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 113 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
24, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 3. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |