Sec. 531.075. PRIOR AUTHORIZATION FOR HIGH-COST MEDICAL SERVICES. The commission may evaluate and implement, as appropriate, procedures, policies, and methodologies to require prior authorization for high-cost medical services and procedures and may contract with qualified service providers or organizations to perform those functions. Any such program shall recognize any prohibitions in state or federal law on limits in the amount, duration, or scope of medically necessary services for children on Medicaid.
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 198, Sec. 2.16, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.