Bill Text: TX HB2466 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
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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-Introduced.html
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-Introduced.html
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By: Davis of Harris | H.B. No. 2466 |
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relating to 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. 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 3. 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 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |