Section 533.009 - [Repealed Effective 4/1/2025] Special Disease Management(a) The commission shall ensure that managed care organizations under contract with the commission to provide health care services to recipients develop and implement special disease management programs to manage a disease or other chronic health conditions, such as heart disease, chronic kidney disease and its medical complications, respiratory illness, including asthma, diabetes, end-stage renal disease, HIV infection, or AIDS, and with respect to which the commission identifies populations for which disease management would be cost-effective.(b) A managed health care plan provided under this chapter must provide disease management services in the manner required by the commission, including: (1) patient self-management education;(3) evidence-based models and minimum standards of care;(4) standardized protocols and participation criteria; and(5) physician-directed or physician-supervised care.(c) The executive commissioner, by rule, shall prescribe the minimum requirements that a managed care organization, in providing a disease management program, must meet to be eligible to receive a contract under this section. The managed care organization must, at a minimum, be required to:(1) provide disease management services that have performance measures for particular diseases that are comparable to the relevant performance measures applicable to a provider of disease management services under Section 32.057, Human Resources Code;(2) show evidence of ability to manage complex diseases in the Medicaid population; and(3) if a disease management program provided by the organization has low active participation rates, identify the reason for the low rates and develop an approach to increase active participation in disease management programs for high-risk recipients.(f) If a managed care organization implements a special disease management program to manage chronic kidney disease and its medical complications as provided by Subsection (a) and the managed care organization develops a program to provide screening for and diagnosis and treatment of chronic kidney disease and its medical complications to recipients under the organization's managed care plan, the program for screening, diagnosis, and treatment must use generally recognized clinical practice guidelines and laboratory assessments that identify chronic kidney disease on the basis of impaired kidney function or the presence of kidney damage.Tex. Gov't. Code § 533.009
Repealed by Acts 2023, Texas Acts of the 88th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 769,Sec. 3.01, eff. 4/1/2025.Amended by Acts 2021, Texas Acts of the 87th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 820,Sec. 5, eff. 9/1/2021.Amended by Acts 2015, Texas Acts of the 84th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 1,Sec. 2.228, eff. 4/2/2015.Amended By Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 921, Sec. 17.001(38), eff. 9/1/2007.Amended By Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 349, Sec. 19(a), eff. 9/1/2005.Amended By Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1047, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/2005.Amended By Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 589, Sec. 7, eff. 6/20/2003.Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 698, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/2001Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1262, Sec. 2, eff. 6/20/1997.