Bill Text: TX HB113 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.html
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-Comm_Sub.html
By: Ortega, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Blanco) | H.B. No. 113 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 17, 2023; | ||
April 18, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Health & | ||
Human Services; May 21, 2023, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 21, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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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. | ||
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