S.B. No. 602 AN ACT 1-1 relating to the development and implementation of a computer 1-2 database to reduce fraud and abuse in the Medicaid program. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Article 4413(502), Revised Statutes, is amended 1-5 by adding Section 16A to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 16A. MEDICAID DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM. (a) The 1-7 commission and each health and human services agency that 1-8 administers a part of the state Medicaid program shall jointly 1-9 develop a system to coordinate and integrate state Medicaid 1-10 databases to: 1-11 (1) facilitate the comprehensive analysis of Medicaid 1-12 data; and 1-13 (2) detect fraud perpetrated by a program provider or 1-14 client. 1-15 (b) To minimize cost and duplication of activities, the 1-16 commission shall assist and coordinate: 1-17 (1) the efforts of the agencies that are participating 1-18 in the development of the system required by Subsection (a); and 1-19 (2) the efforts of those agencies with the efforts of 1-20 other agencies involved in a statewide health data collection 1-21 system provided for by legislation enacted by the 74th Legislature, 1-22 including avoiding duplication of expenditure of state funds for 1-23 computer hardware, staff, or services. 1-24 (c) On the request of the commissioner, a state agency that 2-1 administers any part of the state Medicaid program shall assist the 2-2 commission in developing the system required by this section. 2-3 (d) The commission shall develop the database system in a 2-4 manner that will enable a complete analysis of the use of 2-5 prescription medications, including information relating to: 2-6 (1) Medicaid clients for whom more than three 2-7 medications have been prescribed; and 2-8 (2) the medical effect denial of Medicaid coverage for 2-9 more than three medications has had on Medicaid clients. 2-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 2-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.