Bill Text: TX HB4888 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for non-opioid treatments.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB4888 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4888-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for non-opioid treatments.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB4888 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4888-Introduced.html
88R11490 JG-D | ||
By: Hefner | H.B. No. 4888 |
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relating to Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for non-opioid | ||
treatments. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 32.03117 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 32.03117. REIMBURSEMENT FOR NON-OPIOID TREATMENTS. | ||
(a) In this section: | ||
(1) "Non-opioid treatment" means: | ||
(A) a drug or biological product that is | ||
indicated to produce analgesia without acting on the body's opioid | ||
receptors; or | ||
(B) an implantable, reusable, or disposable | ||
medical device: | ||
(i) approved for use by the United States | ||
Food and Drug Administration for the intended use of eliminating or | ||
reducing pain; and | ||
(ii) that has demonstrated the ability to | ||
replace, reduce, or avoid opioid use. | ||
(2) "OPD services" has the meaning assigned by 42 | ||
U.S.C. Section 1395l(t)(1)(B). | ||
(b) The commission shall ensure that medical assistance | ||
reimbursement is provided to a provider who provides a non-opioid | ||
treatment to a recipient under the medical assistance program. | ||
(c) The executive commissioner by rule shall ensure that, to | ||
the extent permitted by federal law, a provider who provides OPD | ||
services to a medical assistance recipient is reimbursed separately | ||
under the medical assistance program for any non-opioid treatment | ||
provided as a part of those services. | ||
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, 2023. |