The following rate hearings have been set in regards to the Legislative Budget Board (LBB) and the Governor’s Office acceptance of the Spending Reduction Plan for the 2010-11 Biennium submitted by HHSC in response to the Jan. 15, 2010 letter from the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Speaker requesting a spending reduction proposal.
Jun. 28, 2010, 9:00 a.m. – Austin Proposed Medicaid Payments for Freestanding Psychiatric Facilities
Jun. 28, 2010, 10:30 a.m. – Austin Proposed Medicaid Payments for Clinical Laboratory Services
Jun. 28, 2010, 10:30 a.m. – Austin Proposed Medicaid Payments for Renal Dialysis Facilities
Jun. 28, 2010, 1:30 p.m. – Austin Proposed Medicaid Payments for Hospital Outpatient Services and Ambulatory Surgical Centers
Jun. 29, 2010, 8:00 a.m. – Austin Proposed Medicaid Payments for Physicians and Certain Other Practitioners
Jun. 29, 2010, 10:00 a.m. – Austin Proposed Medicaid Payments for Home Health Services (Professional Services and Durable Medical Equipment Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies) Family Planning Providers, Chemical Dependency Treatment Facility
Jun. 29, 2010, 1:00 p.m. – Austin Proposed Medicaid Pmts. and Medicaid Pmt. Rate for Pharmacy Dispensing Fee, Ambulance Providers, Lic. Clinical Social Works., Lic. Prof. Counselors, Lic. Marriage and Family Therapists, Mental Health Targeted Case Mgmt. and Mental Health Rehab. Services
Jun. 29, 2010, 3:00 p.m. – Austin Proposed Medicaid Payments for Providers of Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment Nursing Facilities – Therapies
Jun. 30, 2010, 9:00 a.m. – Austin Proposed Medicaid Payment Rates for Nursing Facilities
Jun. 30, 2010, 3:00 p.m. – Austin Proposed Medicaid Payment Rates for Intermediate Care Facilities for Persons with Mental Retardation
It should be noted that in addition to the accepted reductions in the Spending Reduction Plan, agencies have been asked to look for reductions in their 2012-2013 legislative appropriations requests (LARs). Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and House Speaker Joe Straus have now directed agencies to submit a supplemental schedule detailing how they would reduce their baseline request by an additional 10 percent (in five percent increments) in general revenue-related funding for legislative appropriations request for the 2012-2013 biennial budget. Those requests will be submitted to the governor and Legislative Budget Board between August 2 and 30.
