Section 533.0026 - [Repealed Effective 4/1/2025] Direct Access to Eye Health Care Services Under Medicaid Managed Care Model or Arrangement(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the commission shall ensure that a managed care plan offered by a managed care organization that contracts with the commission under this chapter and any other Medicaid managed care model or arrangement implemented under this chapter allow a recipient who receives services through the plan or other model or arrangement to, in the manner and to the extent required by Section 32.072, Human Resources Code: (1) select an in-network ophthalmologist or therapeutic optometrist in the managed care network to provide eye health care services, other than surgery; and(2) have direct access to the selected in-network ophthalmologist or therapeutic optometrist for the provision of the nonsurgical services.(b) This section does not affect the obligation of an ophthalmologist or therapeutic optometrist in a managed care network to comply with the terms and conditions of the managed care plan.Tex. Gov't. Code § 533.0026
Repealed by Acts 2023, Texas Acts of the 88th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 769,Sec. 3.01, eff. 4/1/2025.Amended by Acts 2015, Texas Acts of the 84th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 1,Sec. 2.218, eff. 4/2/2015.Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 268, Sec. 21(b), eff. 9/1/2007.