85R5017 KFF-D
By: Price H.B. No. 2801
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to contracts between Medicaid managed care organizations
and certain providers of behavioral health and physical health
services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 533.00255(c), Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(c) A managed care organization that contracts with the
commission under this chapter shall:
(1) develop a network of public and private providers
of behavioral health services and ensure adults with serious mental
illness and children with serious emotional disturbance have access
to a comprehensive array of services; and
(2) if the managed care organization intends to
contract with an integrated provider site for the provision of both
behavioral health services and physical health services, offer the
integrated provider site the option of entering into a single
contract with the managed care organization to provide those
services, even if the managed care organization contracts with a
behavioral health organization to coordinate the provision of
behavioral health services for the managed care organization.
SECTION 2. Section 533.00255(c), Government Code, as
amended by this Act, applies to a contract entered into or renewed
on or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. 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 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.