Bill Text: TX HB4888 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for non-opioid treatments.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB4888 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4888-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 4888 | ||
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| relating to Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for non-opioid | ||
| treatments. | ||
| 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 32.03117 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 32.03117. REIMBURSEMENT FOR NON-OPIOID TREATMENTS. | ||
| (a) In this section, "non-opioid treatment" means a drug or | ||
| biological product that is indicated to produce analgesia without | ||
| acting on the body's opioid receptors. | ||
| (b) The commission shall ensure that medical assistance | ||
| reimbursement is provided to a provider who provides a non-opioid | ||
| treatment to a recipient under the medical assistance program. | ||
| (c) The executive commissioner by rule shall ensure that, to | ||
| the extent permitted by federal law, a hospital provider that | ||
| provides outpatient department services to a medical assistance | ||
| recipient is reimbursed separately under the medical assistance | ||
| program for any non-opioid treatment provided as a part of those | ||
| services. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 4888 was passed by the House on May 9, | ||
| 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 133, Nays 9, 2 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 4888 on May 28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 131, Nays 6, | ||
| 2 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 4888 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 24, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
