Bill Text: TX HB2673 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to a report on cost savings attributable to the Medicaid managed care program.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-11 - Referred to Human Services [HB2673 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB2673-Introduced.html

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86R13481 JG-D
By: Muñoz, Jr. H.B. No. 2673

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a report on cost savings attributable to the Medicaid
managed care program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 533, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 533.037 to read as follows:
Sec. 533.037. REPORT ON PROGRAM SAVINGS. Not later than
December 1 of each even-numbered year, the commission shall submit
to the legislature a written report that specifies, for each of the
two preceding state fiscal years:
(1) the amount of money appropriated to the commission
for the Medicaid managed care program that was not spent;
(2) the amount of profit sharing received under
Section 533.014;
(3) the estimated savings resulting from access to
preventive care and improved quality of health care services for
recipients; and
(4) a comparison of the total cost of providing
services to recipients for that state fiscal year with the total
cost of providing those services in the preceding state fiscal
year, adjusted to eliminate the effects of program enrollment
growth.
SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2020, the Health and
Human Services Commission shall submit the first report required by
Section 533.037, Government Code, as added by this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2019.