Bill Text: TX HB2445 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to fostering collaboration among health care systems to provide indigent health care to communities more efficiently.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-14 - Referred to Public Health [HB2445 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2445-Introduced.html
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By: Coleman | H.B. No. 2445 |
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relating to fostering collaboration among health care systems to | ||
provide indigent health care to communities more efficiently. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 531.098 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.098. INDIGENT HEALTH CARE COLLABORATION. (a) The | ||
executive commissioner shall adopt rules to foster collaboration | ||
among and within systems that provide indigent health care services | ||
in the state, including: | ||
(1) hospital districts; | ||
(2) public hospitals; | ||
(3) indigent health care programs provided by | ||
counties; | ||
(4) community-owned health care systems; and | ||
(5) federally qualified health centers. | ||
(b) The rules must: | ||
(1) emphasize community-based care to improve the | ||
continuity and quality of indigent health care; | ||
(2) address the variation in indigent health care | ||
services provided to urban and rural settings; | ||
(3) remove legal and practical barriers to | ||
collaboration; | ||
(4) provide guidance to systems for detecting and | ||
treating mental illness; | ||
(5) facilitate the creation of special programs to | ||
assist patients in navigating the systems that provide indigent | ||
health care services; and | ||
(6) adopt changes that maximize funding and increase | ||
the efficiency of indigent health care provided to communities in | ||
the state. | ||
(c) In adopting the rules, the executive commissioner shall | ||
consider recommending that the systems described by Subsection (a) | ||
incorporate the following principles: | ||
(1) promote patient responsibility and program | ||
viability; | ||
(2) provide a medical home for members; | ||
(3) make evidence-based health care decisions; | ||
(4) pay providers based on a fee-for-service basis; | ||
(5) ensure members receive necessary medication; and | ||
(6) develop community partnerships to expand indigent | ||
health care services. | ||
SECTION 2. The executive commissioner of the Health and | ||
Human Services Commission shall adopt the rules required by Section | ||
531.098, Government Code, as added by this Act, not later than | ||
January 1, 2012. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |