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1	1	By: Nelson S.B. No. 287
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4	4	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
5	5	AN ACT
6	6	relating to the use of electronic prescribing data transmission
7	7	systems under the state Medicaid program.
8	8	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
9	9	SECTION 1. Section 531.02411, Government Code, is amended
10	10	to read as follows:
11	11	Sec. 531.02411. STREAMLINING ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESSES.
12	12	(a) The commission shall make every effort using the commission's
13	13	existing resources to reduce the paperwork and other administrative
14	14	burdens placed on Medicaid recipients and providers and other
15	15	participants in the Medicaid program and shall use technology and
16	16	efficient business practices to decrease those burdens. In
17	17	addition, the commission shall make every effort to improve the
18	18	business practices associated with the administration of the
19	19	Medicaid program by any method the commission determines is
20	20	cost-effective, including:
21	21	(1) expanding the utilization of the electronic claims
22	22	payment system;
23	23	(2) developing an Internet portal system for prior
24	24	authorization requests;
25	25	(3) encouraging Medicaid providers to submit their
26	26	program participation applications electronically;
27	27	(4) ensuring that the Medicaid provider application is
28	28	easy to locate on the Internet so that providers may conveniently
29	29	apply to the program;
30	30	(5) working with federal partners to take advantage of
31	31	every opportunity to maximize additional federal funding for
32	32	technology in the Medicaid program; and
33	33	(6) encouraging the increased use of medical
34	34	technology by providers, including increasing their use of:
35	35	(A) electronic communications between patients
36	36	and their physicians or other health care providers;
37	37	(B) electronic prescribing tools that provide
38	38	up-to-date payer formulary information at the time a physician or
39	39	other health care practitioner writes a prescription and that
40	40	support the electronic transmission of a prescription;
41	41	(C) ambulatory computerized order entry systems
42	42	that facilitate physician and other health care practitioner orders
43	43	at the point of care for medications and laboratory and
44	44	radiological tests;
45	45	(D) inpatient computerized order entry systems
46	46	to reduce errors, improve health care quality, and lower costs in a
47	47	hospital setting;
48	48	(E) regional data-sharing to coordinate patient
49	49	care across a community for patients who are treated by multiple
50	50	providers; and
51	51	(F) electronic intensive care unit technology to
52	52	allow physicians to fully monitor hospital patients remotely.
53	53	(b) The commission shall develop and implement a plan
54	54	designed to encourage the increased use by Medicaid providers of
55	55	the medical technology described by Subsection (a)(6)(B). The plan
56	56	must include a goal of achieving by September 1, 2014, a specified
57	57	percentage increase in the use of electronic prescribing by
58	58	Medicaid providers. Not later than January 1, 2010, the commission
59	59	shall submit a report to the legislature describing the plan
60	60	developed by the commission in accordance with this subsection.
61	61	Not later than January 1, 2011, and January 1, 2013, the commission
62	62	shall submit a report to the legislature regarding the
63	63	implementation and results of the plan. This subsection expires
64	64	September 1, 2014.
65	65	SECTION 2. If before implementing any provision of this Act
66	66	a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a
67	67	federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision,
68	68	the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or
69	69	authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the
70	70	waiver or authorization is granted.
71	71	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
72	72	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
73	73	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
74	74	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
75	75	Act takes effect September 1, 2009.