Bill Text: TX SB1338 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the delivery system reform incentive payment pool under the Medicaid reform waiver.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-13 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB1338 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1338-Introduced.html
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By: Lucio | S.B. No. 1338 |
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relating to the delivery system reform incentive payment pool under | ||
the Medicaid reform waiver. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 537, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Section 537.003 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 537.003. DELIVERY SYSTEM REFORM INCENTIVE PAYMENT | ||
POOL. To the extent permitted under the health care transformation | ||
and quality improvement program waiver granted under Section 1115 | ||
of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Section 1315), the | ||
executive commissioner by rule shall: | ||
(1) allow performing providers to perform delivery | ||
system reform incentive payment pool projects in more than one | ||
regional health care partnership; and | ||
(2) restrict regional health care partnership funding | ||
to the regional health care partnership area to which the funding | ||
was allocated. | ||
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 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. |