Bill Text: TX HB4476 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the provision of certain information about Medicaid benefits in relation to newborn children.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-21 - Referred to Human Services [HB4476 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB4476-Introduced.html

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88R9823 KKR-D
By: Campos H.B. No. 4476

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the provision of certain information about Medicaid
benefits in relation to newborn children.
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 32.0631 to read as follows:
Sec. 32.0631. ANNUAL NOTICE TO CERTAIN PROVIDERS REGARDING
USE OF MEDICAID IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS WITH RESPECT TO NEWBORN
CHILDREN. The commission shall annually provide written notice to
each health care provider who regularly provides health care
services to Medicaid recipients who are pregnant women or newborn
children:
(1) reminding the providers that when a newborn child
of a Medicaid recipient has not been assigned a Medicaid
identification number, the provider may use the recipient's
Medicaid identification number on any claim for reimbursement under
Medicaid; and
(2) encouraging providers to educate Medicaid
recipients who are mothers or the prospective mothers of newborn
children that the recipient may use the recipient's Medicaid
identification number until the recipient's newborn child is
enrolled in Medicaid.
SECTION 2. Section 161.501(a), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) A hospital, birthing center, physician, nurse midwife,
or midwife who provides prenatal care to a pregnant woman during
gestation or at delivery of an infant shall:
(1) provide the woman and the father of the infant, if
possible, or another adult caregiver for the infant, with a
resource pamphlet that includes:
(A) a list of the names, addresses, and phone
numbers of professional organizations that provide postpartum
counseling and assistance to parents relating to postpartum
depression and other emotional trauma associated with pregnancy and
parenting;
(B) information regarding the prevention of
shaken baby syndrome including:
(i) techniques for coping with anger caused
by a crying baby;
(ii) different methods for preventing a
person from shaking a newborn, infant, or other young child;
(iii) the dangerous effects of shaking a
newborn, infant, or other young child; and
(iv) the symptoms of shaken baby syndrome
and who to contact, as recommended by the American Academy of
Pediatrics, if a parent suspects or knows that a baby has been
shaken in order to receive prompt medical treatment;
(C) a list of diseases for which a child is
required by state law to be immunized and the appropriate schedule
for the administration of those immunizations;
(D) the appropriate schedule for follow-up
procedures for newborn screening;
(E) information regarding sudden infant death
syndrome, including current recommendations for infant sleeping
conditions to lower the risk of sudden infant death syndrome;
(F) educational information in both English and
Spanish on:
(i) pertussis disease and the availability
of a vaccine to protect against pertussis, including information on
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendation that
parents receive Tdap during the postpartum period to protect
newborns from the transmission of pertussis; and
(ii) the incidence of cytomegalovirus,
birth defects caused by congenital cytomegalovirus, and available
resources for the family of an infant born with congenital
cytomegalovirus; [and]
(G) the danger of heatstroke for a child left
unattended in a motor vehicle; and
(H) information about Medicaid benefits for
children, including eligibility requirements and the process for
applying for those benefits;
(2) if the woman is a recipient of medical assistance
under Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, provide the woman and the
father of the infant, if possible, or another adult caregiver with a
resource guide that includes information in both English and
Spanish relating to the development, health, and safety of a child
from birth until age five, including information relating to:
(A) selecting and interacting with a primary
health care practitioner and establishing a "medical home" for the
child;
(B) dental care;
(C) effective parenting;
(D) child safety;
(E) the importance of reading to a child;
(F) expected developmental milestones;
(G) health care resources available in the state;
(H) selecting appropriate child care; and
(I) other resources available in the state;
(3) document in the woman's record that the woman
received the resource pamphlet described in Subdivision (1) and the
resource guide described in Subdivision (2), if applicable; and
(4) retain the documentation for at least five years
in the hospital's, birthing center's, physician's, nurse midwife's,
or midwife's records.
SECTION 3. (a) Not later than December 1, 2023, the
Department of State Health Services shall include the information
required by Section 161.501(a)(1)(H), Health and Safety Code, as
added by this Act, in the informational materials required by that
section.
(b) Notwithstanding Section 161.501(a)(1)(H), Health and
Safety Code, as added by this Act, a hospital, birthing center,
physician, nurse midwife, or midwife who provides prenatal care to
a pregnant woman during gestation or at delivery of an infant is not
required to comply with that provision until January 1, 2024.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.