Bill Text: TX HB2082 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to developing a program to provide telemedicine medical services to certain children.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-18 - Referred to Health & Human Services [HB2082 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2082-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to developing a program to provide telemedicine medical services to certain children.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-18 - Referred to Health & Human Services [HB2082 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2082-Comm_Sub.html
84R21937 LED-D | |||
By: Laubenberg, Coleman, Guerra, | H.B. No. 2082 | ||
Bonnen of Galveston | |||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2082: | |||
By: Crownover | C.S.H.B. No. 2082 |
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relating to developing a program to provide telemedicine medical | ||
services to certain children. | ||
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 32.076 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 32.076. TELEMEDICINE MEDICAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN | ||
WITH CHRONIC OR COMPLEX MEDICAL NEEDS. (a) In this section, | ||
"telemedicine medical service" means a health care service that is | ||
provided by a physician for purposes of patient assessment, | ||
diagnosis, consultation, or treatment, or for the transfer of | ||
medical data, and that requires the use of advanced | ||
telecommunications technology, other than telephone or facsimile | ||
technology, including: | ||
(1) compressed digital interactive video, audio, or | ||
data transmission; | ||
(2) clinical data transmission using computer imaging | ||
by way of still-image capture and store and forward; and | ||
(3) other technology that facilitates access to health | ||
care services or medical specialty expertise. | ||
(b) The commission shall develop and implement a program to: | ||
(1) enable an eligible child described under | ||
Subsection (c) to receive medical assistance benefits for health | ||
care services provided in the child's residence through | ||
telemedicine medical services; and | ||
(2) provide reimbursement for telemedicine medical | ||
services under Subdivision (1). | ||
(c) A child is eligible for inclusion in the program under | ||
this section if the child: | ||
(1) is a recipient of medical assistance; and | ||
(2) has been diagnosed with: | ||
(A) an end-stage solid organ disease; or | ||
(B) a condition that, as determined by commission | ||
rule, requires: | ||
(i) mechanical ventilation; | ||
(ii) the child to be technology-dependent; | ||
or | ||
(iii) the child to be treated by three or | ||
more specialists. | ||
(d) Not later than January 1, 2019, and at other times after | ||
that date as determined appropriate by the executive commissioner, | ||
the commission shall report to the legislature on results and | ||
outcomes of the program. A report must include: | ||
(1) an evaluation of clinical outcomes of the program, | ||
including the program's success in reducing expected emergency | ||
department visits; and | ||
(2) the program's impact on medical costs. | ||
(e) The executive commissioner may adopt rules to implement | ||
this section. | ||
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, 2015. |