(a) The commission and each health and human services agency that administers a part of Medicaid shall jointly develop a system to coordinate and integrate state Medicaid databases to:
(1) facilitate the comprehensive analysis of Medicaid data; and
(2) detect fraud perpetrated by a program provider or client.
(b) To minimize cost and duplication of activities, the commission shall assist and coordinate:
(1) the efforts of the agencies that are participating in the development of the system required by Subsection (a); and
(2) the efforts of those agencies with the efforts of other agencies involved in a statewide health care data collection system provided for by § 108.006, Health and Safety Code, including avoiding duplication of expenditure of state funds for computer hardware, staff, or services.

(c) On the request of the executive commissioner, a state agency that administers any part of Medicaid shall assist the commission in developing the system required by this section.
(d) The commission shall develop the database system in a manner that will enable a complete analysis of the use of prescription medications, including information relating to:
(1) Medicaid clients for whom more than three medications have been prescribed; and
(2) the medical effect denial of Medicaid coverage for more than three medications has had on Medicaid clients.
(e) The commission shall ensure that the database system is used each month to match vital statistics unit death records with a list of persons eligible for Medicaid, and that each person who is deceased is promptly removed from the list of persons eligible for Medicaid.

Text of section effective until April 01, 2025