Bill Text: TX SB1707 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to certain group health care benefits and the promotion of telehealth services for certain persons who are eligible for Medicaid or the child health plan program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-26 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB1707 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1707-Introduced.html
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By: Blanco | S.B. No. 1707 |
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relating to certain group health care benefits and the promotion of | ||
telehealth services for certain persons who are eligible for | ||
Medicaid or the child health plan program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 62, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 62.061 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 62.061. HEALTH SERVICES INITIATIVE TO PROMOTE | ||
TELEHEALTH SERVICES. (a) In this section, "telehealth service" | ||
has the meaning assigned by Section 111.001, Occupations Code. | ||
(b) The commission shall develop and implement a health | ||
services initiative designed to leverage federal money available | ||
under the child health plan program under 42 U.S.C. Section | ||
1397ee(a)(1)(D)(ii) to fund technology or infrastructure needed to | ||
promote the availability and use of telehealth services for | ||
providing health care benefits in a group setting to a child: | ||
(1) who is 18 years of age or younger; and | ||
(2) whose annual household income is equal to or less | ||
than 200 percent of the federal poverty level. | ||
(c) To the extent possible, the health services initiative | ||
must be designed to identify children who are eligible for the child | ||
health plan program and children who are eligible for the medical | ||
assistance program under Chapter 32, Human Resources Code. The | ||
commission may automatically enroll an identified child in the | ||
child health plan program or the medical assistance program, as | ||
applicable. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 32.0248 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 32.0248. MEDICAL ASSISTANCE FOR CERTAIN GROUP HEALTH | ||
CARE BENEFITS; ENHANCED REIMBURSEMENT. (a) The commission shall | ||
provide medical assistance at an enhanced reimbursement rate for: | ||
(1) prenatal care benefits provided to a recipient who | ||
is pregnant in a group setting with other pregnant women; and | ||
(2) health care benefits provided to a recipient who | ||
is younger than two years of age in a group setting with other | ||
children of the same age group. | ||
(b) In providing medical assistance under Subsection | ||
(a)(1), the commission shall ensure prenatal care benefits provided | ||
by the following provider types are reimbursable: | ||
(1) a federally qualified health center as defined by | ||
42 U.S.C. Section 1396d(l)(2)(B); | ||
(2) a rural health clinic as defined by 42 U.S.C. | ||
Section 1396d(l)(1); and | ||
(3) other facility-based providers. | ||
SECTION 3. 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 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |