Amend SB 1648 on third reading as follows:

Add the following language and renumber subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 531.024172(d), Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

(d)  In implementing the electronic visit verification system:

(1)  subject to Subsection (e), the executive commissioner shall adopt compliance standards for health care providers; and

(2)  the commission shall ensure that:

(A)  the information required to be reported by health care providers is standardized across managed care organizations that contract with the commission to provide health care services to Medicaid recipients and across commission programs;

(B)  processes required by managed care organizations to retrospectively correct data are standardized and publicly accessible to health care providers; [and]

(C)  standardized processes are established for addressing the failure of a managed care organization to provide a timely authorization for delivering services necessary to ensure continuity of care; and