By Coleman H.B. No. 2932 75R9188 SAW-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the rights of recovery of Medicaid providers. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 32.033, Human Resources Code, is amended 1-5 by adding Subsection (i) to read as follows: 1-6 (i) A hospital provider may recover from a third party any 1-7 funds to which the department has a right of recovery under 1-8 Subsection (a)(3). In addition, a hospital provider may file a 1-9 lien under Chapter 55, Property Code, to recover the full amount of 1-10 hospital charges for services provided to a recipient. On recovery 1-11 from a third party, the hospital provider shall reimburse the 1-12 department for any amount previously paid to the hospital provider 1-13 by the department. The combined amounts received by the hospital 1-14 provider from the department and the third party may not exceed the 1-15 amount authorized by Section 55.004, Property Code. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.