Bill Text: TX HB3549 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition on certain inpatient hospital care limitations under the STAR+PLUS Medicaid managed care program.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-23 - No action taken in committee [HB3549 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB3549-Introduced.html

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86R4572 KKR-D
By: Rose H.B. No. 3549

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a prohibition on certain inpatient hospital care
limitations under the STAR+PLUS 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 533.002511 to read as follows:
Sec. 533.002511. CERTAIN LIMITATIONS ON INPATIENT
HOSPITALIZATION UNDER STAR+PLUS MEDICAID MANAGED CARE PROGRAM
PROHIBITED. The commission may not require and a managed care
organization that contracts with the commission to provide health
care services to recipients under the STAR+PLUS Medicaid managed
care program may not impose a 30-day spell of illness limitation or
other requirement that limits the duration of time a recipient may
receive inpatient hospital care under the program.
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, 2019.