Bill Text: TX SB2279 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for multisystemic therapy services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-22 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB2279 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB2279-Introduced.html

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88R5909 SCP-D
By: Blanco S.B. No. 2279

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for multisystemic
therapy services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 32.024, Human Resources Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (oo-1) to read as follows:
(oo-1) The commission shall ensure that medical assistance
reimbursement is provided to a health care provider who provides
services classified as multisystemic therapy by the Healthcare
Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) code to a recipient under
the medical assistance program. The executive commissioner shall
establish a separate provider type for multisystemic therapy
providers for purposes of enrollment as a provider for and
reimbursement under the medical assistance program.
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.