Sec. 533.0052. STAR HEALTH PROGRAM: TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE TRAINING

(a) A contract between a managed care organization and the commission for the organization to provide health care services to recipients under the STAR Health program must include a requirement that trauma-informed care training be offered to each contracted physician or provider.

(b) The commission shall encourage each managed care organization providing health care services to recipients under the STAR Health program to make training in post-traumatic stress disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder available to a contracted physician or provider within a reasonable time after the date the physician or provider begins providing services under the managed care plan.

Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 371 , Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2011.