Bill Text: TX SB702 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to reimbursement for ambulance services provided to persons enrolled in the Medicaid managed care program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-25 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB702 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB702-Introduced.html
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| By: Hinojosa | S.B. No. 702 | |
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| relating to reimbursement for ambulance services provided to | ||
| persons enrolled in the Medicaid managed care program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 533, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 533.01316 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 533.01316. REIMBURSEMENT FOR AMBULANCE SERVICES. (a) | ||
| This section applies with respect to a recipient of medical | ||
| assistance who is an enrollee in a managed care plan under any | ||
| Medicaid managed care model or arrangement. | ||
| (b) The commission shall ensure that a person providing | ||
| ambulance services to a Medicaid managed care enrollee is | ||
| reimbursed for emergency and nonemergency services provided to the | ||
| enrollee at a rate that is equal to 100 percent of the allowable | ||
| rate for those services as determined under Section 32.028, Human | ||
| Resources Code, regardless of whether the services are provided by | ||
| a provider in the applicable Medicaid managed care plan's network | ||
| of providers. | ||
| 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, 2015. | ||
