Bill Text: TX SB1748 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a pilot program for providing services to certain children under the Medicaid medical transportation program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-14 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB1748 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1748-Introduced.html
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| By: Miles | S.B. No. 1748 | |
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| relating to a pilot program for providing services to certain | ||
| children under the Medicaid medical transportation program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 531.024141 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 531.024141. PILOT PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING MEDICAL | ||
| TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM SERVICES TO CHILDREN ACCOMPANYING PREGNANT | ||
| MOTHERS. (a) The commission shall develop and implement a pilot | ||
| program to enable an eligible child described by Subsection (b) to | ||
| receive medical transportation program services and to provide | ||
| reimbursement for those services in order to: | ||
| (1) increase access to prenatal and postpartum care; | ||
| (2) reduce pregnancy-related complications; | ||
| (3) improve health outcomes for pregnant women and | ||
| infants; and | ||
| (4) reduce the maternal mortality and morbidity rate. | ||
| (b) A child is eligible for inclusion in the pilot program | ||
| established under this section: | ||
| (1) if the child's mother is: | ||
| (A) a recipient of Medicaid during a pregnancy; | ||
| and | ||
| (B) using medical transportation program | ||
| services to travel to and from a covered health care service related | ||
| to the pregnancy, including postpartum care; and | ||
| (2) regardless of whether the child is also a | ||
| recipient of Medicaid. | ||
| (c) The pilot program shall be implemented in more than one | ||
| health care service region. | ||
| (d) The commission, with the assistance of the Maternal | ||
| Mortality and Morbidity Task Force established under Chapter 34, | ||
| Health and Safety Code, shall evaluate the results of the pilot | ||
| program and determine whether the program is effective in | ||
| increasing access to prenatal and postpartum care, reducing | ||
| pregnancy-related complications, improving health outcomes for | ||
| pregnant women and their newborn children, and reducing the | ||
| maternal mortality and morbidity rate. The evaluation must be | ||
| based on: | ||
| (1) the health outcomes of the pregnant women whose | ||
| children participated in the pilot program and of the women's | ||
| newborn children; or | ||
| (2) an assessment of the overall health and pregnancy | ||
| outcomes and trends in this state during the period of the program. | ||
| (e) Not later than September 1, 2021, the commission shall | ||
| report to the legislature on the results of the pilot program. The | ||
| report must include: | ||
| (1) a summary of the commission's evaluation under | ||
| Subsection (d); and | ||
| (2) the impact on costs under the medical | ||
| transportation program. | ||
| (f) The executive commissioner may adopt rules to implement | ||
| this section. | ||
| (g) This section expires September 1, 2021. | ||
| 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, 2019. | ||
