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Tex. Human Resources Code § 32.0249: MENTAL HEALTH SCREENINGS IN TEXAS HEALTH STEPS PROGRAM.
Where this section sits in the code
- HUMAN RESOURCES CODE
- TITLE 2. HUMAN SERVICES AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES IN GENERAL
- SUBTITLE C. ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
- CHAPTER 32. MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
- SUBCHAPTER B. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
The executive commissioner, in the rules governing the Texas Health Steps program, shall allow a provider to:
(1) conduct a mental health screening using one or more validated, standardized mental health screening tools during each annual medical exam of a recipient who is at least 12 years of age but younger than 19 years of age; and
(2) be reimbursed for conducting one mental health screening using one or more validated, standardized mental health screening tools during each annual medical exam of a recipient described by Subdivision (1).
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1028 (H.B. 1600), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2017.
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