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Texas Government Code - GOV'T § 532.0052. Streamlining Administrative Processes

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

The commission shall make every effort:

(1) using the commission's existing resources, to reduce the paperwork and other administrative burdens placed on recipients, Medicaid providers, and other Medicaid participants, and shall use technology and efficient business practices to reduce those burdens; and

(2) to improve the business practices associated with Medicaid administration by any method the commission determines is cost-effective, including:

(A) expanding electronic claims payment system use;

(B) developing an Internet portal system for prior authorization requests;

(C) encouraging Medicaid providers to submit program participation applications electronically;

(D) ensuring that the Medicaid provider application is easy to locate on the Internet so that providers can conveniently apply to the program;

(E) working with federal partners to take advantage of every opportunity to maximize additional federal funding for technology in Medicaid; and

(F) encouraging providers' increased use of medical technology, including increasing providers' use of:

(i) electronic communications between patients and their physicians or other health care providers;

(ii) electronic prescribing tools that provide current payer formulary information at the time the physician or other health care provider writes a prescription and that support the electronic transmission of a prescription;

(iii) ambulatory computerized order entry systems that facilitate at the point of care physician and other health care provider orders for medications and laboratory and radiological tests;

(iv) inpatient computerized order entry systems to reduce errors, improve health care quality, and lower costs in a hospital setting;

(v) regional data-sharing to coordinate patient care across a community for patients who are treated by multiple providers; and

(vi) electronic intensive care unit technology to allow physicians to fully monitor hospital patients remotely. (Gov. Code, Sec. 531.02411.)

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