Bill Text: TX SB102 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to reimbursement rates for Medicaid acute care therapy services; making an appropriation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-22 - Filed [SB102 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB102-Introduced.html
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| By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 102 | |
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| relating to reimbursement rates for Medicaid acute care therapy | ||
| services; making an appropriation. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. (a) In addition to other amounts appropriated to | ||
| the Health and Human Services Commission for the state fiscal | ||
| biennium ending August 31, 2019, $112,020,886 is appropriated from | ||
| the economic stabilization fund and $148,492,803 is appropriated | ||
| from federal funds to the Health and Human Services Commission for | ||
| that state fiscal biennium to: | ||
| (1) fully reverse the reductions made during the state | ||
| fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2017, to reimbursement rates for | ||
| Medicaid acute care therapy services that are not reversed in | ||
| accordance with Rider 218, S.B. 1, Acts of the 85th Legislature, | ||
| Regular Session, 2017 (the General Appropriations Act), to the bill | ||
| pattern of the appropriations to the commission; and | ||
| (2) provide funding to make unnecessary the | ||
| implementation during the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, | ||
| 2019, of adopted reductions in reimbursement rates paid to therapy | ||
| assistants for the provision of Medicaid acute care therapy | ||
| services. | ||
| (b) It is the intent of the legislature that the Health and | ||
| Human Services Commission ensure that money appropriated by this | ||
| section is fully reflected in the reimbursement rates paid to | ||
| providers of Medicaid acute care therapy services in both the | ||
| Medicaid fee-for-service and managed care delivery models. | ||
| SECTION 2. Rider 218, S.B. 1, Acts of the 85th Legislature, | ||
| Regular Session, 2017 (the General Appropriations Act), to the bill | ||
| pattern of the appropriations to the Health and Human Services | ||
| Commission is amended to read as follows: | ||
| 218. Adjustment of Therapy Rate Reductions. Funds | ||
| appropriated above in the strategies in Goal A, Medicaid Client | ||
| Services, include $11,850,000 in General Revenue Funds and | ||
| $15,593,261 in Federal Funds ($27,443,261 in All Funds) for fiscal | ||
| year 2018 and $12,555,500 in General Revenue Funds and $16,834,045 | ||
| in Federal Funds ($29,389,045 in All Funds) for fiscal year 2019 to | ||
| restore approximately 25 percent of the reductions made to | ||
| reimbursement rates for acute care therapy services during the | ||
| 2016-17 biennium. The Health and Human Services Commission is | ||
| directed to allocate the restorations among provider types and | ||
| procedure codes to preserve access to care for clients served under | ||
| Medicaid fee-for-service and managed care models. It is the intent | ||
| of the Legislature that HHSC shall ensure any funds restored | ||
| through this rider are fully reflected in reimbursement rates paid | ||
| to providers of acute care therapy services in both fee-for-service | ||
| and managed care models. | ||
| Additionally, funds appropriated above in Goal A, Medicaid | ||
| Client Services, include $14,100,000 in General Revenue Funds and | ||
| $18,554,006 in Federal Funds ($32,654,006 in All Funds) for fiscal | ||
| year 2018 for the payment of reimbursements to [ |
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| SECTION 3. (a) Subject to Subsection (b) of this section: | ||
| (1) 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; and | ||
| (2) if this Act does not receive the vote necessary for | ||
| immediate effect, this Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
| last day of the legislative session. | ||
| (b) This Act takes effect only if it receives a vote of | ||
| two-thirds of the members present in each house of the legislature, | ||
| as provided by Section 49-g(m), Article III, Texas Constitution. | ||
