Bill Text: TX HB154 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for certain inpatient mental health services.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-02-27 - Referred to Human Services [HB154 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB154-Introduced.html
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| By: Raymond | H.B. No. 154 | |
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| relating to Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for certain | ||
| inpatient mental health services. | ||
| 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 32.02465 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 32.02465. REIMBURSEMENT FOR CERTAIN INPATIENT MENTAL | ||
| HEALTH SERVICES. (a) In this section, "inpatient mental health | ||
| institution" means a hospital, nursing facility, or other | ||
| institution with 16 or more beds that primarily provides health | ||
| care services, including medical attention, nursing care, and | ||
| related services, to individuals with a mental illness. | ||
| (b) The commission shall ensure that medical assistance | ||
| reimbursement is provided to an inpatient mental health institution | ||
| that provides health care services to a recipient under the medical | ||
| assistance program. | ||
| (c) The executive commissioner by rule shall ensure that | ||
| medical assistance reimbursement provided under this section | ||
| includes reimbursement for: | ||
| (1) health care services provided to a recipient under | ||
| the medical assistance program regardless of the recipient's age; | ||
| and | ||
| (2) the entirety of a recipient's stay at an inpatient | ||
| mental health institution during which the institution provided | ||
| those services. | ||
| 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, 2025. | ||
