The following was obtained from the June 4 issue of the Texas Register:
Public Hearings and Notices
HHSC will hold public hearings on June 28, 2010, in the Lone Star Conference Room:
- 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.: Freestanding Psychiatric Facilities
- 10:30 a.m. to noon: Renal Dialysis Facilities
- 10:30 a.m. to noon: Clinical Laboratory Services
- 1:30 p.m.: Hospital Outpatient Services and Ambulatory Surgical Centers/Hospital-Based Ambulatory Surgical Centers
See the Texas Register for details.
HHSC will hold public hearings on Medicaid payment rates on June 29, 2010, in the Lone Star Conference Room:
- 8 a.m. to 10 a.m: Physicians and Certain Other Practitioners
- 10 a.m. to noon: Home Health Services (Professional Services and Durable Medical Equipment Prosthetics, Orthotics and Supplies), Family Planning Providers, and Chemical Dependency Treatment Facility
- 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.: Pharmacy Dispensing Fee and ambulance providers, licensed clinical social workers, licensed professional counselors, and licensed marriage and family therapist services, Mental Health Targeted Case Management, and Mental Health Rehabilitative Services
- 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.: Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment , and Nursing Facilities – Therapies
- 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.: Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT), EPSDT Personal Care Services, and EPSDT Private Duty Nursing
See the Texas Register for details.
HHSC will hold a public hearings on June 30, 2010, on Medicaid payment rates, in the Lone Star Conference Room:
- 9 a.m.: Nursing Facilities
- 3 p.m.: The non-state operated ICF/MR program
See the Texas Register for details.
HHSC intends to submit Transmittal Number 10-001, Amendment Number 894, to the Texas State Plan for Medical Assistance, under Title XIX of the Social Security Act, to assure that the state will collect and reporon the average monthly enrollment and average monthly participation rates for adults and children covered under TMA, as required by Section 1925(g) of the Act.
HHSC intends to submit Transmittal Number 10-003, Amendment Number 896, to the Texas State Plan for Medical Assistance, under Title XIX of the Social Security Act, which would extend the eligibility for kinship guardianship assistance through age 21 for youth who were 16 years or older at the time permanent managing conservatorship was granted to a non-parental relative.
See the Texas Register for more information.
Proposed Rules
HHSC proposes to amend §355.7101, concerning Cost Determination Process, and §355.7103, concerning Rate-Setting Methodology for 24-Hour Residential Child-Care Reimbursements, in Chapter 355, Reimbursement Rates, which would change these rules to update and standardize the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) facility-type language references in HHSC rules to current DFPS usage.
HHSC proposes to amend §370.401, concerning perinates, in Chapter 370, State Children’s Health Insurance Program, which would provide Children’s Health Insurance Program Perinatal coverage to newborn children whose household income is above 185 percent of the Federal Poverty Level–the income limit for Medicaid.
HHSC proposes to amend §379.502, concerning preparing, providing, and serving food to residents; and §379.716, concerning DFPS licensing for shelter centers, in Chapter 379, Family Violence Program, which would update the name of the food benefits formerly known as food stamps to reflect HHSC’s current term for these benefits.
See the relevant section of the Texas Register for more information.
Adopted Rules
HHSC adopted amendments to the following sections:
- Medicaid Health Services (adopted repeals “to remove the existing rules governing Medicaid programs for women, children, youth, and needy families from Chapter 354 and place them in their own chapter”)
- Reimbursement Rates (“reflects the current Medicaid reimbursement methodology for maternity clinic services and tuberculosis clinic services and clarifies existing rule language”)
- Medicaid Eligibility For Women, Children, Youth, and Needy Families (“adopted to provide a complete reorganization and rewrite of the rules governing eligibility for various Medicaid programs for women, children, youth, and needy family”)
- Temporary Assistance For Needy Families (“adopted to revise a TANF income exclusion regarding payments under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998”)
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programs, and TANF-Level Medical Assistance (repeal “adopted to allow the simultaneous adoption of new rules in Chapter 366, Subchapter G that are updated with correct agency names and rule cross-references and are easier to find and use”)
See the relevant section of the Texas Register for more information.