Bill Text: TX HB4601 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of a workgroup to study uniform quality measures under a value-based program for long-term services and supports.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-26 - Referred to Human Services [HB4601 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4601-Introduced.html
| By: Raymond | H.B. No. 4601 | |
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| relating to the creation of a workgroup to study uniform quality | ||
| measures under a value-based program for long-term services and | ||
| supports. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 531.0122 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 531.0121. WORKGROUP ON UNIFORM QUALITY MEASURES UNDER | ||
| A VALUE-BASED PROGRAM FOR LONG-TERM SERVICES AND SUPPORTS. (a) | ||
| Within a committee established under Section 531.012 that studies | ||
| quality improvement and value-based payment initiatives, the | ||
| Commission shall establish a workgroup to engage stakeholders | ||
| representing clients, providers, and other relevant industries | ||
| providing community long-term services and supports to develop | ||
| uniform quality measures under a value-based program for long-term | ||
| services and supports including: | ||
| (1) developing the underlying methodology for | ||
| measuring quality under a value-based program; | ||
| (2) identifying the data sources used under the | ||
| methodology; and | ||
| (3) establishing a process for the reporting, | ||
| collecting, and validating of the data used in the methodology. | ||
| (b) Data collected shall be accessible to the public | ||
| including the quality metrics. | ||
| (c) Through the workgroup process and upon agreement of the | ||
| full committee, the commission shall establish a plan and timeline | ||
| for implementing the measures as defined by this Subchapter. | ||
| (d) The commission shall submit a report on the plan and | ||
| timeline for implementing the uniform quality measures to the | ||
| governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the house, and each | ||
| standing committee with jurisdiction overseeing the financing, | ||
| operation, and management of Medicaid no later than September 1, | ||
| 2020. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
