(a) A provider in the provider network of a Medicaid managed care organization that contracts with the commission to provide behavioral health services under § 540.0703 may contract with the organization to provide targeted case management and psychiatric rehabilitative services to children, adolescents, and their families.
(b) Commission rules and guidelines concerning contract and training requirements applicable to the provision of behavioral health services may apply to a provider that contracts with a Medicaid managed care organization under Subsection (a) only to the extent those contract and training requirements are specific to the provision of targeted case management and psychiatric rehabilitative services to children, adolescents, and their families.

(c) Commission rules and guidelines applicable to a provider that contracts with a Medicaid managed care organization under Subsection (a) may not require the provider to provide a behavioral health crisis hotline or a mobile crisis team that operates 24 hours per day and seven days per week. This subsection does not prohibit a Medicaid managed care organization that contracts with the commission to provide behavioral health services under § 540.0703 from specifically contracting with a provider for the provision of a behavioral health crisis hotline or a mobile crisis team that operates 24 hours per day and seven days per week.
(d) Commission rules and guidelines applicable to a provider that contracts with a Medicaid managed care organization to provide targeted case management and psychiatric rehabilitative services specific to children and adolescents who are at risk of juvenile justice involvement, expulsion from school, displacement from the home, hospitalization, residential treatment, or serious injury to self, others, or animals may not require the provider to also provide less intensive psychiatric rehabilitative services specified by commission rules and guidelines as applicable to the provision of targeted case management and psychiatric rehabilitative services to children, adolescents, and their families, if that provider has a referral arrangement to provide access to those less intensive psychiatric rehabilitative services.
(e) Commission rules and guidelines applicable to a provider that contracts with a Medicaid managed care organization under Subsection (a) may not require the provider to provide services not covered under Medicaid.

Text of section effective on April 01, 2025