Bill Text: TX HB1647 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the development of a dental services benefit under Medicaid for adult recipients with disabilities and a pilot program to provide those services.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-01 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1647 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1647-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Deshotel, Davis of Harris | H.B. No. 1647 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1647: | |||
| By: Noble | C.S.H.B. No. 1647 | ||
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| relating to the development of a dental services benefit under | ||
| Medicaid for adult recipients with disabilities and a pilot program | ||
| to provide those services. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 32.0545 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 32.0545. DENTAL SERVICES BENEFIT FOR CERTAIN | ||
| RECIPIENTS; PILOT PROGRAM. (a) The commission shall develop a | ||
| dental services benefit under the medical assistance program for | ||
| adult recipients with disabilities. The dental services benefit | ||
| must be: | ||
| (1) cost-effective and designed to achieve cost | ||
| savings; | ||
| (2) designed to reduce emergency room visits by or | ||
| hospitalizations of adult recipients with disabilities resulting | ||
| from a lack of access to dental services; and | ||
| (3) designed to meet the individual needs of adult | ||
| recipients with disabilities. | ||
| (b) In developing the dental services benefit under this | ||
| section, the commission shall evaluate dental services benefits | ||
| provided under medical assistance waiver programs authorized under | ||
| Section 1115 of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Section | ||
| 1315) and dental services benefits provided as a value-added | ||
| service under the Medicaid managed care delivery model. | ||
| (c) Not later than September 1, 2020, the commission shall | ||
| prepare and submit to the legislature a written report on the dental | ||
| services benefit developed under this section. | ||
| (d) The commission may establish and operate a pilot program | ||
| to provide the dental services benefit developed under this section | ||
| in one or more geographic areas of this state. The pilot program | ||
| must conclude not later than September 1, 2022. If the commission | ||
| establishes the pilot program under this section, the commission | ||
| shall prepare and submit to the legislature a written report that | ||
| summarizes the results of the pilot program not later than December | ||
| 1, 2022. | ||
| (e) This section expires September 1, 2023. | ||
| SECTION 2. If before implementing any provision of this Act | ||
| a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a | ||
| federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, | ||
| the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or | ||
| authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the | ||
| waiver or authorization is granted. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
