Bill Text: TX HB2848 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to consultations with contracted physician networks and physician systems during certain investigations of child abuse and neglect.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB2848 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2848-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2848 | ||
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| relating to consultations with contracted physician networks and | ||
| physician systems during certain investigations of child abuse and | ||
| neglect. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 261, Family Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 261.3017 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 261.3017. CONSULTATION WITH PHYSICIAN NETWORKS AND | ||
| SYSTEMS REGARDING CERTAIN MEDICAL CONDITIONS. (a) In this | ||
| section: | ||
| (1) "Network" means the Forensic Assessment Center | ||
| Network. | ||
| (2) "System" means the entities that receive grants | ||
| under the Texas Medical Child Abuse Resources and Education System | ||
| (MEDCARES) authorized by Chapter 1001, Health and Safety Code. | ||
| (b) Any agreement between the department and the network or | ||
| between the Department of State Health Services and the system to | ||
| provide assistance in connection with abuse and neglect | ||
| investigations conducted by the department must require the network | ||
| and the system to have the ability to obtain consultations with | ||
| physicians, including radiologists, geneticists, and | ||
| endocrinologists, who specialize in identifying unique health | ||
| conditions, including: | ||
| (1) rickets; | ||
| (2) Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome; | ||
| (3) osteogenesis imperfecta; | ||
| (4) vitamin D deficiency; and | ||
| (5) other similar metabolic bone diseases or | ||
| connective tissue disorders. | ||
| (c) If, during an abuse or neglect investigation or an | ||
| assessment provided under Subsection (b), the department or a | ||
| physician in the network determines that a child requires a | ||
| specialty consultation with a physician, the department or the | ||
| physician shall refer the child's case to the system for the | ||
| consultation, if the system has available capacity to take the | ||
| child's case. | ||
| (d) In providing assessments to the department as provided | ||
| by Subsection (b), the network and the system must use a blind peer | ||
| review process to resolve cases where physicians in the network or | ||
| system disagree in the assessment of the causes of a child's | ||
| injuries or in the presence of a condition listed under Subsection | ||
| (b). | ||
| SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| an agreement entered into or renewed on or after the effective date | ||
| of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2848 was passed by the House on May 2, | ||
| 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 2848 on May 24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, | ||
| 2 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2848 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 22, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
