Texas Health and Safety Code

§ 12.0115 — INTEGRATION OF HEALTH CARE DELIVERY PROGRAMS

HS § 12.0115Title 2. HEALTH · Part A. DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES · Ch. 12. POWERS AND DUTIES OF DEPARTMENT OF · Art. B. POWERS AND DUTIES OF DEPARTMENT

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(a)In this section, "health care delivery programs" includes the department's primary health care services program, its program to improve maternal and infant health, its services program for children with special health care needs, any aspects of health care delivery under the state Medicaid program assigned to the department by law or by the commission, and the part of any other department program concerned with the department's responsibility for the delivery of health care services.

(b)The department shall integrate the functions of its different health care delivery programs to the maximum extent possible, including integrating the functions of health care delivery programs that are part of the state Medicaid program with functions of health care delivery programs that are not part of the state Medicaid program.

(c)At a minimum, the department's integration of the functions of its different health care delivery programs must include the integration within and across the programs of:

(1)the development of health care policy;

(2)the delivery of health care services, to the extent appropriate for the recipients of the health care services; and

(3)to the extent possible, the administration of contracts with providers of health care services, particularly providers who concurrently provide health care services under more than one contract or program with the department.

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Legislative history

Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0012, eff. April 2, 2015.