Bill Text: TX HB2638 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to reimbursement for complex rehabilitation technology equipment providers under the medical assistance program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-30 - Withdrawn from schedule [HB2638 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2638-Introduced.html
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| By: Raymond | H.B. No. 2638 | |
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| relating to reimbursement for complex rehabilitation technology | ||
| equipment providers under the medical assistance program. | ||
| 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 32.03142 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 32.03142. COMPLEX REHABILITATION TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT | ||
| PROVIDERS. (a) In this section, "complex rehabilitation | ||
| technology equipment" means an item of equipment that is classified | ||
| on January 1, 2013, under the federal Medicare program as durable | ||
| medical equipment and that is specially configured to meet an | ||
| individual's specific and unique medical, physical, and functional | ||
| needs and to assist the individual in performing basic and | ||
| instrumental activities of daily living identified as medically | ||
| necessary. The term includes: | ||
| (1) a complex rehabilitation manual or power | ||
| wheelchair; | ||
| (2) an adaptive seating or positioning item; | ||
| (3) a standing frame; and | ||
| (4) a gait trainer. | ||
| (b) The department shall establish a separate provider type | ||
| for complex rehabilitation technology equipment providers for | ||
| purposes of enrollment as a provider and reimbursement under the | ||
| medical assistance program. The department may not classify complex | ||
| rehabilitation technology equipment providers under the durable | ||
| medical equipment provider type. | ||
| (c) The executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
| Services Commission by rule shall adopt separate reimbursement | ||
| rates for the provider type established under this section. The | ||
| reimbursement rates must be adequate to compensate providers for | ||
| all services provided, including product configuration and | ||
| training services. | ||
| SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the Health and Human Services Commission shall | ||
| establish and implement a separate provider type for complex | ||
| rehabilitation technology equipment providers, and the executive | ||
| commissioner of the commission shall adopt rules providing for | ||
| separate reimbursement rates for those providers, as required by | ||
| Section 32.03142, Human Resources Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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 4. 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. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
