Texas 2009 - 81st Regular

Texas House Bill HB3300 Compare Versions

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1	1	81R2339 UM-D
2	2	By: Kolkhorst H.B. No. 3300
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to the use of electronic prescribing data transmission
8	8	systems under the state Medicaid program.
9	9	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	10	SECTION 1. Section 531.02411, Government Code, is amended
11	11	to read as follows:
12	12	Sec. 531.02411. STREAMLINING ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESSES.
13	13	(a) The commission shall make every effort using the
14	14	commission's existing resources to reduce the paperwork and other
15	15	administrative burdens placed on Medicaid recipients and providers
16	16	and other participants in the Medicaid program and shall use
17	17	technology and efficient business practices to decrease those
18	18	burdens. In addition, the commission shall make every effort to
19	19	improve the business practices associated with the administration
20	20	of the Medicaid program by any method the commission determines is
21	21	cost-effective, including:
22	22	(1) expanding the utilization of the electronic claims
23	23	payment system;
24	24	(2) developing an Internet portal system for prior
25	25	authorization requests;
26	26	(3) encouraging Medicaid providers to submit their
27	27	program participation applications electronically;
28	28	(4) ensuring that the Medicaid provider application is
29	29	easy to locate on the Internet so that providers may conveniently
30	30	apply to the program;
31	31	(5) working with federal partners to take advantage of
32	32	every opportunity to maximize additional federal funding for
33	33	technology in the Medicaid program; and
34	34	(6) encouraging the increased use of medical
35	35	technology by providers, including increasing their use of:
36	36	(A) electronic communications between patients
37	37	and their physicians or other health care providers;
38	38	(B) electronic prescribing tools that provide
39	39	up-to-date payer formulary information at the time a physician or
40	40	other health care practitioner writes a prescription and that
41	41	support the electronic transmission of a prescription;
42	42	(C) ambulatory computerized order entry systems
43	43	that facilitate physician and other health care practitioner orders
44	44	at the point of care for medications and laboratory and
45	45	radiological tests;
46	46	(D) inpatient computerized order entry systems
47	47	to reduce errors, improve health care quality, and lower costs in a
48	48	hospital setting;
49	49	(E) regional data-sharing to coordinate patient
50	50	care across a community for patients who are treated by multiple
51	51	providers; and
52	52	(F) electronic intensive care unit technology to
53	53	allow physicians to fully monitor hospital patients remotely.
54	54	(b) The commission shall develop and implement a plan
55	55	designed to encourage the increased use by Medicaid providers of
56	56	the medical technology described by Subsection (a)(6)(B). The plan
57	57	must include a goal of achieving by September 1, 2014, a specified
58	58	percentage increase in the use of electronic prescribing by
59	59	Medicaid providers. Not later than January 1, 2010, the commission
60	60	shall submit a report to the legislature describing the plan
61	61	developed by the commission in accordance with this subsection.
62	62	Not later than January 1, 2011, and January 1, 2013, the commission
63	63	shall submit a report to the legislature regarding the
64	64	implementation and results of the plan. This subsection expires
65	65	September 1, 2014.
66	66	SECTION 2. If before implementing any provision of this Act
67	67	a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a
68	68	federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision,
69	69	the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or
70	70	authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the
71	71	waiver or authorization is granted.
72	72	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
73	73	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
74	74	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
75	75	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
76	76	Act takes effect September 1, 2009.