Texas Government Code - GOV'T § 531.02141. Medicaid Information Collection and Analysis

(a) The commission shall make every effort to improve data analysis and integrate available information associated with Medicaid. The commission shall use the decision support system in the commission's center for strategic decision support for this purpose and shall modify or redesign the system to allow for the data collected by Medicaid to be used more systematically and effectively for Medicaid evaluation and policy development. The commission shall develop or redesign the system as necessary to ensure that the system:

(b) The commission shall ensure that all Medicaid data sets created or identified by the decision support system are made available on the Internet to the extent not prohibited by federal or state laws regarding medical privacy or security. If privacy concerns exist or arise with respect to making the data sets available on the Internet, the system and the commission shall make every effort to make the data available through that means either by removing information by which particular individuals may be identified or by aggregating the data in a manner so that individual records cannot be associated with particular individuals.

(c) The commission shall regularly evaluate data submitted by managed care organizations that contract with the commission under Chapter 533 to determine whether:

(d) The commission shall collect Medicaid managed care data that effectively captures the quality of services received by Medicaid recipients.

(e) The commission shall develop a dashboard for agency leadership that is designed to assist leadership with overseeing Medicaid and comparing the performance of managed care organizations participating in Medicaid. The dashboard must identify a concise number of important Medicaid indicators, including key data, performance measures, trends, and problems.