S.B. No. 1829
AN ACT
relating to maintaining and distributing certain Medicaid managed
care directories.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 533, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 533.00751 to read as follows:
Sec. 533.00751. RECIPIENT DIRECTORY. The commission shall
in accordance with a single source of truth design:
(1) maintain an accurate electronic directory of
contact information for each recipient enrolled in a managed care
plan offered by a Medicaid managed care organization under this
chapter, including, to the extent feasible, each recipient's:
(A) home, work, and mobile telephone numbers;
(B) e-mail address; and
(C) home and work addresses; and
(2) ensure that each Medicaid managed care
organization and enrollment broker participating in the Medicaid
managed care program update the electronic directory required under
Subdivision (1) in real time.
SECTION 2. Section 533.0063(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) A [Except as provided by Subsection (c), a] managed care
organization is required to send a paper form of the organization's
provider network directory for the program only to a recipient who
requests to receive the directory in paper form.
SECTION 3. Section 533.0063(c), Government Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 4. (a) The Health and Human Services Commission
shall, in a contract between the commission and a managed care
organization under Chapter 533, Government Code, that is entered
into or renewed on or after the effective date of this Act, require
that the managed care organization comply with Section 533.00751,
Government Code, as added by this Act.
(b) The Health and Human Services Commission shall seek to
amend contracts entered into with managed care organizations under
Chapter 533, Government Code, before the effective date of this Act
to require those managed care organizations to comply with Section
533.00751, Government Code, as added by this Act. To the extent of
a conflict between that section and a provision of a contract with a
managed care organization entered into before the effective date of
this Act, the contract provision prevails.
SECTION 5. 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 6. 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, 2021.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1829 passed the Senate on
April 26, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1829 passed the House on
May 18, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 136, Nays 1, two present
not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor