TO: | Honorable Dianne White Delisi, Chair, House Committee on State Health Care Expenditures, Select |
FROM: | John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB1343 by Uresti (Relating to providing interpreter services to recipients of medical assistance or their parents or guardians.), As Introduced |
Fiscal Year | Probable Net Positive/(Negative) Impact to General Revenue Related Funds |
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2004 | ($3,482,000) |
2005 | ($3,482,000) |
2006 | ($3,482,000) |
2007 | ($3,482,000) |
2008 | ($3,482,000) |
Fiscal Year | Probable (Cost) fromGENERAL REVENUE FUND 1 |
Probable (Cost) fromFEDERAL FUNDS 555 |
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2004 | ($3,482,000) | ($3,482,000) |
2005 | ($3,482,000) | ($3,482,000) |
2006 | ($3,482,000) | ($3,482,000) |
2007 | ($3,482,000) | ($3,482,000) |
2008 | ($3,482,000) | ($3,482,000) |
The Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) included the following assumptions pursuant to implementing provisions of the bill.
1. The HHSC indicated that the provision of interpreter services would be an administrative expense under Medicaid, which is matched at 50/50 percent (State/Federal). Interpreters may not be enrolled as Medicaid providers, according to HHSC, because they are not licensed or certified practitioners of the healing arts.
2. HHSC stated that interpreter services would be provided through an administrative contract and assumed the average cost of interpreter services to be $68 per session (2 hours at $34/hour at Level III) with the cost of the contract being held constant across all five years for the estimate.
3. HHSC estimated that 34,137 clients or 3-5 percent of Medicaid clients would require interpreter services. The Commission assumed that services would be required 3 times a year which would be 102,412 services provided annually.
Source Agencies: | 324 Department Of Human Services, 501 Department Of Health, 517 Commission On Alcohol And Drug Abuse, 529 Health And Human Services Commission, 530 Department Of Protective And Regulatory Services, 655 Department Of Mental Health And Mental Retardation
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LBB Staff: | JK, JO, EB, KF, ML
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