Bill Text: TX SB1424 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 1424 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the inclusion of optometrists, therapeutic optometrists, and ophthalmologists in the health care provider networks of certain Medicaid managed care organizations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-16 - Left pending in committee [SB1424 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB1424-Introduced.html

	83R9260 EES-F

	By: Hinojosa	S.B. No. 1424



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the inclusion of optometrists, therapeutic
	optometrists, and ophthalmologists in the health care provider
	networks of certain Medicaid managed care organizations.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 533, Government Code, is
	amended by adding Section 533.0065 to read as follows:
	Sec. 533.0065. EYE HEALTH CARE SERVICE PROVIDERS. Subject
	to Section 32.047, Human Resources Code, but notwithstanding any
	other law, if the commission determines that recipient access to
	optometrists, therapeutic optometrists, and ophthalmologists under
	any Medicaid managed care model or arrangement in a region is not
	adequate, the commission shall require that each managed care
	organization that contracts with the commission to provide health
	care services to recipients in that region under the model or
	arrangement include in the organization's provider network each
	optometrist, therapeutic optometrist, and ophthalmologist in the
	region who:
	(1) agrees to comply with the terms and conditions of
	the organization;
	(2) agrees to accept the prevailing provider contract
	rate of the organization;
	(3) agrees to abide by the standards of care required
	by the organization; and
	(4) has the credentials required by the organization.
	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, 2013.