Texas 2017 - 85th Regular

Texas House Bill HB2375 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 02/24/2017

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                            85R11600 JG-D
 By: Muñoz, Jr. H.B. No. 2375


 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 AN ACT
 relating to a report on cost savings attributable to the Medicaid
 managed care program.
 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 533, Government Code, is
 amended by adding Section 533.022 to read as follows:
 Sec. 533.022.  REPORT ON PROGRAM SAVINGS. Not later than
 December 1 of each even-numbered year, the commission shall submit
 a written report to the legislature that specifies, for each of the
 two preceding state fiscal years:
 (1)  the amount of money appropriated to the commission
 for the Medicaid managed care program that was not spent;
 (2)  the amount of profit sharing received under
 Section 533.014;
 (3)  the estimated savings resulting from access to
 preventive care and improved quality of health care services for
 recipients; and
 (4)  a comparison of the total cost of providing
 services to recipients for that state fiscal year with the total
 cost of providing those services in the preceding state fiscal
 year, adjusted to eliminate the effects of program enrollment
 growth.
 SECTION 2.  Not later than December 1, 2018, the Health and
 Human Services Commission shall submit the first report required by
 Section 533.022, Government Code, as added by this Act.
 SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
 Act takes effect September 1, 2017.