Bill Text: TX HB941 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of a work group to study uniform quality measures under a value-based program for long-term services and supports.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-29 - Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar [HB941 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB941-Comm_Sub.html
87R18943 KKR-F | |||
By: Raymond, Meza | H.B. No. 941 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 941: | |||
By: Frank | C.S.H.B. No. 941 |
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relating to the creation of a work group 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 531.01211 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.01211. WORK GROUP ON UNIFORM QUALITY MEASURES | ||
UNDER VALUE-BASED PROGRAM FOR LONG-TERM SERVICES AND SUPPORTS. (a) | ||
The commission shall establish within the advisory committee | ||
established under Section 531.012 that studies value-based payment | ||
and quality improvement initiatives a work group to study, develop, | ||
and recommend uniform quality measures to be implemented under a | ||
value-based program for long-term services and supports. The work | ||
group shall: | ||
(1) develop an underlying methodology for measuring | ||
quality under the value-based program; | ||
(2) identify the data sources that should be used in | ||
the methodology; and | ||
(3) develop a process for reporting, collecting, and | ||
validating the data used in the methodology. | ||
(b) The work group shall engage stakeholders representing | ||
clients who receive long-term services and supports and providers | ||
and relevant industries that provide community-based long-term | ||
services and supports to assist in developing uniform quality | ||
measures under Subsection (a). | ||
(c) To the extent permitted by federal law, data collected | ||
and the uniform quality measures developed by the work group under | ||
this section must be accessible to the public. | ||
(d) Not later than January 10, 2023, the commission, in | ||
consultation with the work group established under this section and | ||
with the agreement of the advisory committee in which the work group | ||
is established, shall submit a report on the findings and | ||
recommendations of the work group to the governor, the lieutenant | ||
governor, and the standing committees of the senate and house of | ||
representatives having primary jurisdiction over Medicaid. The | ||
report must include: | ||
(1) the uniform quality measures developed and | ||
recommended by the work group under Subsection (a), including any | ||
methodology recommended by the work group for measuring quality; | ||
and | ||
(2) the commission's recommendations for implementing | ||
those quality measures, including a proposed timeline for | ||
implementation of the measures and a description of any potential | ||
legislation that would be required for implementation of the | ||
measures. | ||
(e) This section expires September 1, 2023. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |