Bill Text: TX HB3715 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to identification and implementation of hospital funding solutions related to the Medicaid program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-16 - Left pending in subcommittee [HB3715 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3715-Introduced.html
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| By: Guerra | H.B. No. 3715 | |
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| relating to identification and implementation of hospital funding | ||
| solutions related to the Medicaid program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 531.02117 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 531.02117. HOSPITAL FUNDING SOLUTIONS. (a) In this | ||
| section, "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" means the | ||
| federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Pub. L. No. | ||
| 111-148) as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation | ||
| Act of 2010 (Pub. L. No. 111-152). | ||
| (b) The commission, in consultation with the Department of | ||
| State Health Services, shall conduct a study regarding the effects | ||
| of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on: | ||
| (1) Medicaid reimbursements paid to hospitals in this | ||
| state for services provided by the hospitals; and | ||
| (2) payments made under the disproportionate share | ||
| hospitals supplemental payment program to hospitals in this state. | ||
| (c) As part of the study, the commission shall compare and | ||
| contrast: | ||
| (1) the amounts of the reimbursements and payments | ||
| described by Subsection (b) before enactment of the Patient | ||
| Protection and Affordable Care Act; and | ||
| (2) the amounts or anticipated amounts of those | ||
| reimbursements and payments after the effective dates of applicable | ||
| provisions of that Act, accounting for any expansion of eligibility | ||
| for the Medicaid program made in accordance with the Act for which | ||
| additional federal matching money is available, if that expansion | ||
| were to occur. | ||
| (d) The commission, in consultation with the Department of | ||
| State Health Services and based on the study conducted under this | ||
| section, shall develop proposals designed to provide long-term | ||
| funding solutions related to the Medicaid program for hospitals in | ||
| this state. To the extent authorized by law, the commission may | ||
| implement the proposals. | ||
| (e) Not later than December 1, 2014, the commission shall | ||
| submit a report based on the study conducted and proposals | ||
| developed under this section to the governor, the lieutenant | ||
| governor, and the legislature. The report must: | ||
| (1) explain the effects of the Patient Protection and | ||
| Affordable Care Act on Medicaid reimbursements and | ||
| disproportionate share hospitals supplemental payment program | ||
| payments paid to hospitals in this state, as identified in the | ||
| study; and | ||
| (2) describe the proposals developed under Subsection | ||
| (d) and: | ||
| (A) identify the proposals the commission has | ||
| implemented; and | ||
| (B) for each proposal the commission has not | ||
| implemented, identify any changes in law necessary for | ||
| implementation. | ||
| (f) This section expires September 1, 2015. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2013. | ||
