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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to reports on expenditures of hospital upper payment limit |
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supplemental payment program money. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is |
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amended by adding Section 531.0991 to read as follows: |
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Sec. 531.0991. REPORTS ON UPPER PAYMENT LIMIT MONEY. |
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(a) Not later than the first day of the second month following each |
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calendar quarter, each hospital in the state that receives from the |
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state federal money under the hospital upper payment limit |
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supplemental payment program, other than money provided through the |
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health opportunity pool trust fund established under Section |
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531.503, shall submit a report to the commission that, for the |
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previous calendar quarter, states the hospital's aggregated |
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expenditures of that money that were health care related and the |
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hospital's aggregated expenditures of that money that were |
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non-health care related. |
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(b) Not later than the first day of the second month |
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following each calendar quarter, each private entity that |
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administers a hospital upper payment limit supplemental payment |
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program for a hospital or county or other governmental entity that |
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receives money from this state under that program shall submit a |
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report to the commission that, for the previous calendar quarter, |
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states the administrative and legal fees charged by the private |
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entity out of all upper payment limit money. |
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(c) Not later than December 1 of each year, the commission |
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shall provide to the standing committees of the senate and house of |
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representatives having primary jurisdiction of health and human |
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services a report that: |
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(1) is based on the reports submitted by hospitals and |
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private entities under Subsections (a) and (b) during the previous |
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12-month period; |
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(2) analyzes the percentage of federal upper payment |
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limit supplemental payment program money paid to those hospitals |
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that is used for health care related purposes and the percentage |
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that is used for non-health care related purposes; and |
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(3) analyzes the percentage of federal upper payment |
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limit supplemental payment program money that is used for |
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administrative and legal fees by those private entities. |
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(d) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules as |
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necessary that specify for purposes of this section the types of |
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expenditures by hospitals that are health care related and the |
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types of expenditures that are non-health care related. |
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SECTION 2. Not later than February 1, 2010, each hospital |
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and private entity to which Section 531.0991, Government Code, as |
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added by this Act, applies shall submit the initial reports |
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required by that section. |
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SECTION 3. Not later than December 1, 2010, the Health and |
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Human Services Commission shall submit the initial report required |
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by Subsection (c), Section 531.0991, Government Code, as added by |
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this Act. |
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SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |