Sec. 531.02411. STREAMLINING ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESSES. The commission shall make every effort using the commission's existing resources to reduce the paperwork and other administrative burdens placed on Medicaid recipients and providers and other participants in Medicaid and shall use technology and efficient business practices to decrease those burdens. In addition, the commission shall make every effort to improve the business practices associated with the administration of Medicaid by any method the commission determines is cost-effective, including:
(1) expanding the utilization of the electronic claims payment system;
(2) developing an Internet portal system for prior authorization requests;
(3) encouraging Medicaid providers to submit their program participation applications electronically;
(4) ensuring that the Medicaid provider application is easy to locate on the Internet so that providers may conveniently apply to the program;
(5) working with federal partners to take advantage of every opportunity to maximize additional federal funding for technology in Medicaid; and
(6) encouraging the increased use of medical technology by providers, including increasing their use of:
(A) electronic communications between patients and their physicians or other health care providers;
(B) electronic prescribing tools that provide up-to-date payer formulary information at the time a physician or other health care practitioner writes a prescription and that support the electronic transmission of a prescription;
(C) ambulatory computerized order entry systems that facilitate physician and other health care practitioner orders at the point of care for medications and laboratory and radiological tests;
(D) inpatient computerized order entry systems to reduce errors, improve health care quality, and lower costs in a hospital setting;
(E) regional data-sharing to coordinate patient care across a community for patients who are treated by multiple providers; and
(F) electronic intensive care unit technology to allow physicians to fully monitor hospital patients remotely.
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 349 (S.B. 1188), Sec. 4(a), eff. September 1, 2005.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 2.048, eff. April 2, 2015.
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