By: Buckingham, et al. S.B. No. 672

(In the Senate - Filed February 12, 2021; March 11, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human Services; March 22, 2021, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; March 22, 2021, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 672 By: Campbell

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.

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