Bill Text: TX HB2801 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 2801 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to contracts between Medicaid managed care organizations and certain providers of behavioral health and physical health services.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-27 - Referred to Public Health [HB2801 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB2801-Introduced.html

	85R5017 KFF-D

	By: Price	H.B. No. 2801



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to contracts between Medicaid managed care organizations
	and certain providers of behavioral health and physical health
	services.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 533.00255(c), Government Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	(c) A managed care organization that contracts with the
	commission under this chapter shall:
	(1) develop a network of public and private providers
	of behavioral health services and ensure adults with serious mental
	illness and children with serious emotional disturbance have access
	to a comprehensive array of services; and
	(2) if the managed care organization intends to
	contract with an integrated provider site for the provision of both
	behavioral health services and physical health services, offer the
	integrated provider site the option of entering into a single
	contract with the managed care organization to provide those
	services, even if the managed care organization contracts with a
	behavioral health organization to coordinate the provision of
	behavioral health services for the managed care organization.
	SECTION 2. Section 533.00255(c), Government Code, as
	amended by this Act, applies to a contract entered into or renewed
	on or after the effective date of this Act.
	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.