The following information was obtained from the September 10 issue of the Texas Register:
Public Hearings and Notice
The Medicaid Managed Care Stakeholder Forum of the Expansion of STAR+PLUS (Dallas Service Area) will be held on September 21, 2010, from 2-5 p.m., at the Texas Health Resources Corporate Office, Executive Conference Hall, 7th Floor, 612 E. Lamar Blvd., Arlington, TX 76011.
The Medicaid Managed Care Stakeholder Forum of the Expansion of STAR+PLUS (Tarrant Service Area) will be held on September 21, 2010, from 9-12 p.m., at the Texas Health Resources Corporate Office, Executive Conference Hall, 7th Floor, 612 E. Lamar Blvd., Arlington, TX 76011.
HHSC intends to submit an amendment to the Texas State Plan for Medical Assistance, under Title XIX of the Social Security Act, which would modify the current reimbursement methodology in the Texas Medicaid State Plan for Specialized Rehabilitation Services for Infants and Toddlers with Development Delays program by ending the Time and Financial Information system used to set reimbursement rates for providers of Specialized Rehabilitation Services, effective October 1, 2010, replacing it with the Random Moment Time Study.
See the Texas Register for contact information.
Proposed Rules
HHSC proposes to amend Title 1, Part 15, Subchapter J, Division 4, §355.8052, concerning Inpatient Hospital Reimbursement, which would require HHSC to update the payment division standard dollar amounts and diagnosis related group factors with more recent cost data.
See the Texas Register for more information.
Withdrawn Rules
The Texas Medical Board withdraws the proposed amendment to §175.1 which appeared in the July 16, 2010, issue of the Texas Register (35 TexReg 6177). See the Texas Register for more information.
The Texas Medical Board adopted amendments to the following:
- General Provisions (“provides that adoption of committee minutes are to be approved by the full Board rather than by the individual committees”)
- Licensure (“clarifies that if an applicant takes multiple types of licensure examinations, attempts at comparable sections shall be combined to determine eligibility for licensure. Language is currently under a different subsection, and the language is being moved to be cleared on its application”)
- Medical Records (“provides that physicians who receive medical records from other practitioners in relation to the treatment of a specific patient, must only keep those records that are salient to the patient’s treatment”)
- Temporary And Limited Licenses (among other things, “adds definitions for controlled substances and dangerous drugs”)
- Certification Of Non-Profit Health Organizations (“updates the name of the Texas Medical Board as used in this chapter”)
- Investigations (“clarifies that this section applies in all respects to licensure applicants”)
- Texas Physician Health Program And Rehabilitation Orders (among other things, “provides that the drug vendor used by the PHP must be approved by the Texas Medical Board, and establishes standards for processing referrals, requiring evaluations, settings terms for agreements with participants, and facilitating interventions”)
- Physician Assistants (among other things, “provides that the PA Board may revoke a temporary license when necessary”)
- Procedural Rules (among other things, “requires that disciplinary orders that impose administrative penalties related to the delivery of health care services must be reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank”)
