By Maxey H.B. No. 864 74R2345 CBH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the provision of and reimbursement for certain case 1-3 management services. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 4413(502), Revised Statutes, is amended 1-6 by adding Section 10A to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 10A. CASE MANAGEMENT. (a) The commission shall adopt 1-8 and administer a statewide consolidated case management system in 1-9 which one primary service coordinator is assigned to each service 1-10 recipient. The service coordinator must be: 1-11 (1) trained to broker services across different 1-12 agencies; and 1-13 (2) administratively separate from the direct delivery 1-14 of services. 1-15 (b) The commission shall coordinate the development by the 1-16 health and human services agencies of rules that permit parents and 1-17 consumers to act as primary service coordinators. The commission 1-18 shall develop a consolidated training program for these primary 1-19 service coordinators that includes information on services 1-20 available from all state agencies. 1-21 SECTION 2. (a) The health and human services agencies that 1-22 administer the Medicaid program shall: 1-23 (1) review their Medicaid case management 1-24 reimbursement processes to determine if the agencies are receiving 2-1 the maximum reimbursement allowed; and 2-2 (2) implement a system to allow the agencies to 2-3 capture the maximum reimbursement allowed. 2-4 (b) The Health and Human Services Commission shall monitor 2-5 the health and human services agencies' case management review to 2-6 determine if the state's Medicaid plan should be amended. 2-7 (c) In this section, "health and human services agencies" 2-8 has the meaning assigned by Section 19, Article 4413(502), Revised 2-9 Statutes. 2-10 SECTION 3. The Health and Human Services Commission shall 2-11 implement the consolidated case management system prescribed by 2-12 Section 10A(a), Article 4413(502), Revised Statutes, as added by 2-13 this Act, not later than May 31, 1996. 2-14 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-20 passage, and it is so enacted.