Bill Text: TX HB2365 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the participation and reimbursement of certain military medical treatment facilities and affiliated health care providers under Medicaid.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB2365 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2365-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2365 |
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relating to the participation and reimbursement of certain military | ||
medical treatment facilities and affiliated health care providers | ||
under Medicaid. | ||
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 32.0275 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 32.0275. MILITARY MEDICAL TREATMENT FACILITIES AND | ||
AFFILIATED HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS; REIMBURSEMENT. (a) In this | ||
section, "military medical treatment facility" means a military | ||
medical treatment facility described by 10 U.S.C. Section 1073d(b), | ||
(c), or (d). | ||
(b) This section applies only to a military medical | ||
treatment facility located in this state that has been verified as a | ||
Level 1 trauma center by the American College of Surgeons or an | ||
equivalent organization. | ||
(c) A military medical treatment facility or a health care | ||
provider providing services at a military medical treatment | ||
facility is considered a provider under Medicaid for purposes of | ||
providing and receiving reimbursement for: | ||
(1) inpatient emergency services; and | ||
(2) related outpatient services to the extent those | ||
services are not available from an enrolled Medicaid provider at | ||
the time the services are needed. | ||
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, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2365 was passed by the House on May 5, | ||
2021, by the following vote: Yeas 91, Nays 55, 1 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 2365 on May 28, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 91, Nays 54, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2365 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 24, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays | ||
1. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |