The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) will submit an amendment that eliminates the 2.5 percent Medicaid payment reduction for Medicaid services delivered by Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Professional Counselors, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, which was effective on September 1, 2003.
HHSC is eliminating the reduction because of increased appropriations under the 2008-09 General Appropriations Act. For information on how to submit comments, see the relevant section of the August 3 Texas Register.
HHSC will submit amendments to the Texas State Plan for Medical Assistance to increase reimbursement for the dispensing expense component of the dispensing fee under the Vendor Drug Program, to extend the time period for rebasing, or recalculating, the Standard Dollar Amount to August 31, 2008, and to adjust payment rates for the Nursing Facility Program as a result of the 2008 – 2009 General Appropriations.
For information on how to submit comments, begin at this link and scroll down to entries for each amendment announcement in the August 10 edition of the Texas Register.
