1-1 By: Madla, Zaffirini S.B. No. 603 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 16, 1995; February 16, 1995, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human 1-4 Services; March 16, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 16, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to certain health care providers under a managed care 1-9 Medicaid program. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 16, Article 4413(502), Revised Statutes, 1-12 is amended to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 16. ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICAID PROGRAM. (a) On 1-14 approval by the federal government, the commission is the state 1-15 agency designated to administer federal medical assistance funds. 1-16 (b) In adopting rules implementing a managed care Medicaid 1-17 program, the commission shall: 1-18 (1) ensure that in developing the provider network 1-19 extra consideration is given to a health care provider who has 1-20 traditionally provided care to Medicaid and charity care patients; 1-21 and 1-22 (2) require that a managed care organization include 1-23 in its provider network, for not less than three years, each 1-24 primary care physician who: 1-25 (A) previously provided care to Medicaid and 1-26 charity care patients at a level prescribed by the commission; and 1-27 (B) agrees to accept the organization's standard 1-28 provider reimbursement rate. 1-29 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-34 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-35 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-36 * * * * *