Tennessee Code Title 71. Welfare § 71-1-126

The commissioner of finance and administration is hereby directed to begin the process of reviewing, for the purposes of reforming, the state's medicaid program. Such review shall include reviewing managed care programs and applying for needed federal waivers as well as the development of plans for consideration by the governor and the general assembly outlining options the state has under federal law concerning, but not limited to, eligibility, scope and duration of services, optional services, and rate structures. The governor is hereby authorized to appoint committees, as the governor deems appropriate, to assist in the overall review of the medicaid program, it being the legislative intent that the state of Tennessee develop a medicaid program that can continue to provide the necessary health care services to those appropriately in need at a cost that can be supported within existing sources of revenue.