| TO: | 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), As Introduced |
The bill amends provisions related to disease management programs. The bill authorizes the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) to utilize, where cost effective, the services of a provider of disease management programs in the Medicaid program. The bill requires that HHSC give clients in Medicaid managed care service areas who currently participate in a disease management program the option to remain enrolled in the disease management program.
HHSC projects a cost associated with allowing clients to remain in disease management programs of $247,500 in 2006 and $495,000 in subsequent years, fifty percent of which would be state and fifty percent federal. HHSC states that savings associated with disease management are ongoing but cannnot be determined. It is assumed that the savings associated with disease management would be at least equal to and offset the costs to implement the provisions of the bill.
| Source Agencies: | 529 Health and Human Services Commission
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| LBB Staff: | JOB, CL, KF
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