Honorable Dianne White Delisi, Chair, House Committee on Public Health
FROM:
John S. O'Brien, Deputy Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:
HB2472 by Delisi (Relating to disease management services under Medicaid managed care. ), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
The bill would amend Section 32.059 of the Human Resources Code to allow recipients under providers of Disease Management (DM) affected by a managed care expansion to stay with their DM provider if the executive commissioner determines that the use of that provider will be more cost-effective to the Medicaid program than using a provider of a disease management program under a managed care organization. According to the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), there would be no significant fiscal impact because the executive commissioner would determine that allowing those recipients to remain with the disease management vendor is cost effective. Also according to HHSC, the savings from DM would be ongoing but the amount of savings cannot be determined.
Local Government Impact
No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.