Bill Text: TX HB3519 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to reimbursement for home telemonitoring services under Medicaid.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-3)

Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB3519 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB3519-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 3519

AN ACT
relating to reimbursement for home telemonitoring services under
Medicaid.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 531.02176, Government Code, as amended
by S.B. No. 219, Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular Session,
2015, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 531.02176. EXPIRATION OF MEDICAID REIMBURSEMENT FOR
PROVISION OF HOME TELEMONITORING SERVICES. Notwithstanding any
other law, the commission may not reimburse providers under
Medicaid for the provision of home telemonitoring services on or
after September 1, 2019 [2015].
SECTION 2. 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 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3519 was passed by the House on May
12, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 3519 on May 28, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0,
1 present, not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3519 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 24, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays
1.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor