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TITLE 1ADMINISTRATION
PART 15TEXAS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
CHAPTER 353MEDICAID MANAGED CARE
SUBCHAPTER ODELIVERY SYSTEM AND PROVIDER PAYMENT INITIATIVES
RULE §353.1309Texas Incentives for Physicians and Professional Services

      (iii) Other physician groups are not eligible for payments from Component One.

      (iv) Providers must report quality data as described in §353.1311 of this subchapter as a condition of participation in the program.

      (v) HHSC will reconcile the interim allocation of funds across qualifying HRI and IME physician groups to the actual distribution of Medicaid clients served across these physician groups during the program period, as captured by Medicaid MCOs contracted with HHSC for managed care 120 days after the last day of the program period.

      (vi) Redistribution resulting from the reconciliation will be based on the actual utilization of enrolled NPIs.

      (vii) If a provider eligible for TIPPS payments was not included in the monthly scorecards, the provider may be included in the reconciliation by HHSC.

    (B) For the program period beginning on September 1, 2024, the total value of Component One will be equal to 90 percent of the total program value.

      (i) Allocation of funds across qualifying HRI and IME physician groups will be proportional, based upon historical Medicaid utilization.

      (ii) Payments to physician groups will be a uniform rate increase paid at the time of claim adjudication.

      (iii) Other physician groups are not eligible for payments from Component One.

      (iv) Providers must report quality data as described in §353.1311 of this subchapter as a condition of participation in the program.

    (C) For program periods beginning on or after September 1, 2025, the total value of component one will be equal to 55 percent of the total program value.

      (i) Allocation of funds across qualifying HRI and IME physician groups will be proportional, based upon historical Medicaid utilization.

      (ii) Payments to physician groups will be a uniform rate increase paid at the time of claim adjudication.

      (iii) Other physician groups are not eligible for payments from Component One.

      (iv) Providers must report quality data as described in §353.1311 of this subchapter as a condition of participation in the program.

  (2) Component Two.

    (A) For program periods beginning on or before September 1, 2023, but on or after September 1, 2021, the total value of Component Two will be equal to 25 percent of the total program value.

      (i) Allocation of funds across qualifying HRI and IME physician groups will be proportional, based upon historical Medicaid utilization.

      (ii) Payments to physician groups will be a uniform rate increase.

      (iii) Other physician groups are not eligible for payments from Component Two.

      (iv) Providers must report quality data as described in §353.1311 of this subchapter as a condition of participation in the program.

      (v) HHSC will reconcile the interim allocation of funds across qualifying HRI and IME physician groups to the actual distribution of Medicaid clients served across these physician groups during the program period as captured by Medicaid MCOs contracted with HHSC for managed care 120 days after the last day of the program period.

      (vi) Redistribution resulting from the reconciliation will be based on the actual utilization of enrolled NPIs.

      (vii) If a provider eligible for TIPPS payments was not included in the monthly scorecards, the provider may be included in the reconciliation by HHSC.

    (B) For the program period beginning September 1, 2024, Component Two will be equal to 0 percent of the program.

    (C) For program periods beginning on or after September 1, 2025, the total value of Component Two will be equal to 35 percent of the total program value.

      (i) Allocation of funds across qualifying HRI and IME physician groups will be proportional, based upon historical Medicaid utilization.

      (ii) Payments to physician groups will be made through a pay-for-performance model based on their achievement of quality measures and paid through a scorecard.

      (iii) Other physician groups are not eligible for payments from Component Two.

  (3) Component Three.

    (A) The total value of Component Three will be equal to 10 percent of the total program value.

    (B) Allocation of funds across physician groups will be proportional, based upon actual Medicaid utilization of specific procedure codes as identified in the final quality metrics or performance requirements described in §353.1311 of this subchapter.

    (C) Payments to physician groups will be a uniform rate increase.

    (D) Providers must report quality data as described in §353.1311 of this subchapter as a condition of participation in the program.

(h) Distribution of TIPPS payments.

  (1) Before the beginning of the program period, HHSC will calculate the portion of each PMPM associated with each TIPPS enrolled practice group broken down by TIPPS capitation rate component and payment period. The model for scorecard payments and the reconciliation calculations will be based on the enrolled NPIs and the MCO network status at the time of the application under subsection (e)(1) of this section. For example, for a physician group, HHSC will calculate the portion of each PMPM associated with that group that would be paid from the MCO to the physician group as follows.

    (A) Payments from Component One.

      (i) For program periods beginning on or before September 1, 2023, but on or after September 1, 2021, payments will be monthly and will be equal to the total value of Component One for the physician group divided by twelve.

      (ii) For program periods beginning on or after September 1, 2024, payments will be made as a uniform percentage increase paid at the time of claim adjudication.

    (B) Payments from Component Two.

      (i) For program periods beginning on or before September 1, 2023, but on or after September 1, 2021, payments will be semi-annual and will be equal to the total value of Component Two for the physician group divided by 2.

      (ii) For the program period beginning on September 1, 2024, no payments will be made for Component Two.

      (iii) For program periods beginning on or after September 1, 2025, payment will be made on a scorecard basis at payments based on the reporting of quality measures and paid through a scorecard at the time of achievement.

    (C) Payments from Component Three will be equal to the total value of Component Three attributed as a uniform rate increase based upon historical utilization.

  (2) MCOs will distribute payments to enrolled physician groups as directed by HHSC. Payments will be equal to the portion of the TIPPS PMPM associated with the achievement for the time period in question multiplied by the number of member months for which the MCO received the TIPPS PMPM.

(i) Changes in operation. If an enrolled physician group closes voluntarily or ceases to provide Medicaid services, the physician group must notify the HHSC Provider Finance Department by hand delivery, United States (U.S.) mail, or special mail delivery within 10 business days of closing or ceasing to provide Medicaid services. Notification is considered to have occurred when the HHSC Provider Finance Department receives the notice.

(j) Reconciliation. HHSC will reconcile the amount of the non-federal funds actually expended under this section during each program period with the amount of funds transferred to HHSC by the sponsoring governmental entities for that same period using the methodology described in §353.1301(g) of this subchapter.

(k) Recoupment. Payments under this section may be subject to recoupment as described in §353.1301(j) and §353.1301(k) of this subchapter.


Source Note: The provisions of this §353.1309 adopted to be effective March 21, 2021, 46 TexReg 1617; amended to be effective May 31, 2022, 47 TexReg 3113; amended to be effective January 28, 2024, 49 TexReg 413

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