Bill Text: TX HB25 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to reimbursement rates for Medicaid acute care therapy services; making an appropriation.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-08-07 - Received from the House [HB25 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB25-Engrossed.html
| By: Davis of Harris, Price, Guerra, Darby, | H.B. No. 25 | |
| Krause, et al. | ||
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| relating to reimbursement rates for Medicaid acute care therapy | ||
| services; making an appropriation. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. (a) In addition to other amounts appropriated to | ||
| the Health and Human Services Commission for the state fiscal | ||
| biennium ending August 31, 2019, the following amounts are | ||
| appropriated to the commission for Medicaid acute care therapy | ||
| services for the specified periods: | ||
| (1) $34,180,000 from the economic stabilization fund | ||
| and $44,977,018 from federal funds for the state fiscal year ending | ||
| August 31, 2018; and | ||
| (2) $35,995,000 from the economic stabilization fund | ||
| and $48,262,959 from federal funds for the state fiscal year ending | ||
| August 31, 2019. | ||
| (b) It is the intent of the legislature that: | ||
| (1) the Health and Human Services Commission allocate | ||
| money appropriated under Subsection (a) of this section among | ||
| provider types and procedure codes for Medicaid acute care therapy | ||
| services in a manner that preserves access to care for clients | ||
| served under the Medicaid fee-for-service and managed care delivery | ||
| models; and | ||
| (2) money appropriated under Subsection (a) of this | ||
| section be fully reflected in reimbursement rates paid to Medicaid | ||
| acute care therapy services providers under both the Medicaid | ||
| fee-for-service and managed care delivery models. | ||
| SECTION 2. The appropriation from the economic | ||
| stabilization fund to the Trusteed Programs within the Office of | ||
| the Governor for Strategy A.1.1., Disaster Funds, made by Chapter | ||
| 605 (S.B. 1), Acts of the 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017 | ||
| (the General Appropriations Act), for the state fiscal biennium | ||
| beginning September 1, 2017, is reduced by $70,175,000. | ||
| SECTION 3. (a) Subject to Subsection (b) of this section: | ||
| (1) this Act takes effect immediately if it receives a | ||
| vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution; and | ||
| (2) if this Act does not receive the vote necessary for | ||
| immediate effect, this Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
| last day of the legislative session. | ||
| (b) This Act takes effect only if it receives a vote of | ||
| two-thirds of the members present in each house of the legislature, | ||
| as provided by Section 49-g(m), Article III, Texas Constitution. | ||
