TITLE: Relating to a recipient's disenrollment from a Medicaid managed care plan.

SUMMARY: Relating to a recipient's disenrollment from a Medicaid managed care plan.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to a recipient's disenrollment from a Medicaid managed care plan. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 533.0076(c), Government Code, is amended to read as follows: (c) The commission shall allow a recipient who is enrolled in a managed care plan under this chapter to disenroll from that plan and enroll in another managed care plan [: [(1)] at any time for cause in accordance with federal law [; and [(2) once for any reason after the periods described by Subsections (a) and (b)].SECTION 2. If before implementing any provision of this Act a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the waiver or authorization is granted. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.