COMPLIANCE STANDARDS AND STANDARDIZED PROCESSES.

(a) In implementing the electronic visit verification system:

(1) subject to Subsection (b), the executive commissioner shall adopt compliance standards for health care providers; and

(2) the commission shall ensure that:

(A) the information required to be reported by health care providers is standardized across Medicaid managed care organizations and commission programs;

(B) processes Medicaid managed care organizations require to retrospectively correct data are standardized and publicly accessible to health care providers;

(C) standardized processes are established for addressing the failure of a Medicaid managed care organization to provide a timely authorization for delivering services necessary to ensure continuity of care; and

(D) a health care provider is allowed to enter a variable schedule into the system.

(b) In establishing compliance standards for health care providers under Subsection (a), the executive commissioner shall consider:

(1) the administrative burdens placed on health care providers required to comply with the standards; and

(2) the benefits of using emerging technologies for ensuring compliance, including Internet-based, mobile telephone-based, and global positioning-based technologies.