By: Buckingham, et al. S.B. No. 672
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to Medicaid coverage of certain collaborative care
management services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 32.024, Human Resources Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (oo) to read as follows:
(oo) The commission shall provide medical assistance
reimbursement to a treating health care provider who participates
in Medicaid for the provision to a child or adult medical assistance
recipient of behavioral health services that are classified by a
Current Procedural Terminology code as collaborative care
management services.
SECTION 2. 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 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.