Bill Text: TX SB1808 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the use of promotoras and community health workers in Medicaid managed care.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-18 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB1808 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1808-Introduced.html
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| By: Rodríguez | S.B. No. 1808 | |
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| relating to the use of promotoras and community health workers in | ||
| Medicaid managed care. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 533, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 533.032 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 533.032. PROMOTORAS AND COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS. (a) | ||
| In this section, "promotora" and "community health worker" have the | ||
| meaning assigned by Section 48.001, Health and Safety Code. | ||
| (b) The commission shall allow each managed care | ||
| organization that contracts with the commission to provide health | ||
| care services to recipients under the STAR Medicaid managed care | ||
| program to categorize services provided by a promotora or community | ||
| health worker as a quality improvement cost instead of an | ||
| administrative expense. | ||
| 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, 2019. | ||
