Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 727 amends the Human Resources Code to provide a mechanism for the Health and Human Services Commission to contract with providers of disease management programs, including certain comprehensive hemophilia diagnostic treatment centers, to offer services to Medicaid beneficiaries who have a disease or chronic health condition and are not otherwise eligible for those services under a Medicaid managed plan. House Bill 727 prescribes procedures and minimum requirements for requesting, awarding, and developing contracts; determining cost savings; and identifying who needs disease management services. The bill requires the commission to identify certain beneficiaries who are eligible to participate in federally funded disease management research programs and to assist and refer those persons to the programs. The bill also requires the commission to conduct a study, to be completed not later than December 31, 2003, on the potential cost savings of using disease management programs.