Bill Text: TX HB1605 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a pilot program in Harris County to provide maternity care management to certain women enrolled in the Medicaid managed care program.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB1605 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1605-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1605 |
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relating to the establishment of a pilot program in Harris County to | ||
provide maternity care management to certain women enrolled in the | ||
Medicaid managed care program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 531.0996 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.0996. PREGNANCY MEDICAL HOME PILOT PROGRAM. (a) | ||
The commission shall develop and implement a pilot program in | ||
Harris County to create pregnancy medical homes that provide | ||
coordinated evidence-based maternity care management to women who | ||
reside in the pilot program area and are recipients of medical | ||
assistance through a Medicaid managed care model or arrangement | ||
under Chapter 533. | ||
(b) In developing the pilot program, the commission shall | ||
ensure that each pregnancy medical home created for the program | ||
provides a maternity management team that: | ||
(1) consists of health care providers, including | ||
obstetricians, gynecologists, family physicians or primary care | ||
providers, physician assistants, certified nurse midwives, | ||
advanced practice registered nurses, and social workers, in a | ||
single location; | ||
(2) conducts a risk-classification assessment for | ||
each pilot program participant on entry into the program to | ||
determine whether her pregnancy is considered high- or low-risk; | ||
(3) based on the assessment under Subdivision (2), | ||
establishes an individual pregnancy care plan for each participant; | ||
and | ||
(4) follows the participant throughout her pregnancy | ||
in order to reduce poor birth outcomes. | ||
(c) The commission may incorporate financial incentives to | ||
health care providers who participate in a maternity management | ||
team as a component of the pilot program. | ||
(d) Not later than January 1, 2015, the commission shall | ||
report to the legislature on the progress of the pilot program. The | ||
report must include: | ||
(1) an evaluation of the pilot program's success in | ||
reducing poor birth outcomes; and | ||
(2) a recommendation as to whether the pilot program | ||
should be continued, expanded, or terminated. | ||
(e) The executive commissioner may adopt rules to implement | ||
this section. | ||
(f) This section expires September 1, 2017. | ||
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, 2013. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1605 was passed by the House on April | ||
25, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 133, Nays 3, 2 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 1605 on May 23, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 132, Nays 12, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1605 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 20, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays | ||
1. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |