Bill Text: TX HB3549 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition on certain inpatient hospital care limitations under the STAR+PLUS Medicaid managed care program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-23 - No action taken in committee [HB3549 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3549-Introduced.html
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| By: Rose | H.B. No. 3549 | |
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| 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. | ||
