Bill Text: TX HB2466 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the content of an application for Medicaid and coverage for certain services related to maternal depression under the Medicaid and child health plan programs.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB2466 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2466-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2466 |
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relating to the content of an application for Medicaid and coverage | ||
for certain services related to maternal depression under the | ||
Medicaid and child health plan programs. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 62, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 62.1511 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 62.1511. COVERAGE FOR MATERNAL DEPRESSION SCREENING. | ||
(a) In this section, "maternal depression" means depression of any | ||
severity with postpartum onset. | ||
(b) The covered services under the child health plan must | ||
include a maternal depression screening for an enrollee's mother, | ||
regardless of whether the mother is also an enrollee, that is | ||
performed during a covered well-child or other office visit for the | ||
enrollee that occurs before the enrollee's first birthday. | ||
(c) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules necessary | ||
to implement this section. The rules must be based on: | ||
(1) clinical and empirical evidence concerning | ||
maternal depression; and | ||
(2) information provided by relevant physicians and | ||
behavioral health organizations. | ||
(d) The commission shall seek, accept, and spend any federal | ||
funds that are available for the purposes of this section, | ||
including priority funding authorized by Section 317L-1 of the | ||
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. Section 201 et seq.), as added | ||
by the 21st Century Cures Act (Pub. L. No. 114-255). | ||
SECTION 2. (a) Section 32.025, Human Resources Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: | ||
(g) The application form adopted under this section must | ||
include: | ||
(1) for an applicant who is pregnant, a question | ||
regarding whether the pregnancy is the woman's first gestational | ||
pregnancy; and | ||
(2) a question regarding the applicant's preferences | ||
for being contacted, as follows: | ||
"If you are determined eligible for benefits, your | ||
managed care organization or health plan provider may contact you | ||
by telephone, text message, or e-mail about health care matters, | ||
including reminders for appointments and information about | ||
immunizations or well check visits. All preferred methods of | ||
contact listed on this application will be shared with your managed | ||
care organization or health plan provider. Please indicate below | ||
your preferred methods of contact in order of preference, with the | ||
number 1 being the most preferable method: | ||
(1) By telephone (if contacted by cellular telephone, | ||
the call may be autodialed or prerecorded, and your carrier's usage | ||
rates may apply)? Yes No | ||
Telephone number: _____________ | ||
Order of preference: 1 2 3 (circle a number) | ||
(2) By text message (a free autodialed service, but | ||
your carrier may charge message and data rates)? Yes No | ||
Cellular telephone number: ______________ | ||
Order of preference: 1 2 3 (circle a number) | ||
(3) By e-mail? Yes No | ||
E-mail address: __________________ | ||
Order of preference: 1 2 3 (circle a number)". | ||
(b) Not later than January 1, 2018, the executive | ||
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall | ||
adopt a revised application form for medical assistance benefits | ||
that conforms to the requirements of Section 32.025(g), Human | ||
Resources Code, as added by this section. | ||
SECTION 3. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 32.0561 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 32.0561. MATERNAL DEPRESSION SCREENING. (a) In this | ||
section, "maternal depression" means depression of any severity | ||
with postpartum onset. | ||
(b) The commission shall provide medical assistance | ||
reimbursement for a maternal depression screening for a recipient's | ||
mother, regardless of whether the mother is also a recipient, that | ||
is performed during a covered examination for the recipient under | ||
the Texas Health Steps Comprehensive Care Program that occurs | ||
before the recipient's first birthday. | ||
(c) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules necessary | ||
to implement this section. The rules must be based on: | ||
(1) clinical and empirical evidence concerning | ||
maternal depression; and | ||
(2) information provided by relevant physicians and | ||
behavioral health organizations. | ||
(d) The commission shall seek, accept, and spend any federal | ||
funds that are available for the purposes of this section, | ||
including priority funding authorized by Section 317L-1 of the | ||
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. Section 201 et seq.), as added | ||
by the 21st Century Cures Act (Pub. L. No. 114-255). | ||
SECTION 4. 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 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2466 was passed by the House on May 6, | ||
2017, by the following vote: Yeas 135, Nays 7, 2 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 2466 on May 25, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 1, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2466 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 23, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |