Second Quarter HCPCS Updates for Texas Medicaid

Date: May 28, 2025

Attention: Providers

Effective for dates of service on or after July 1, 2025

Call to action: Texas Children’s Health Plan (TCHP) would like to inform you that on July 1, 2025, the Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership (TMHP) will implement the second quarter 2025 Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) additions, revisions, and discontinuations, which will be effective for dates of service on or after July 1, 2025.

How this impacts providers:

• Discontinued procedure codes will no longer be considered benefits of Texas Medicaid. Added procedure codes will not be reimbursed until the codes are reviewed and a rate hearing is held.
• Providers will be notified of any benefit changes in a future article. Providers can refer to the Texas Medicaid Provider Procedures Manual for current benefit information.
• Reminder: For clinician-administered drug procedure codes included in a quarterly HCPCS update and approved to be added as Medicaid benefits by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), the rate may be effective as of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) effective date.
  • Claims will be denied until the rate is implemented, but affected claims will be reprocessed back to the CMS effective date. The procedure codes will be payable at the published rate until the HHSC rate hearing is held, as required by Texas Administrative Code 355.201.

Texas Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) like TCHP must provide all medically necessary, Medicaid-covered services to Medicaid members who are enrolled in their MCO/TCHP. Administrative procedures, such as prior authorization, precertification, referrals, and claims and encounter data filing, may differ from traditional Medicaid (fee-for-service) and from MCO to MCO. Providers should reference a member’s specific MCO/TCHP for information on these items. For TCHP, this information can be found on the provider page available here https://www.texaschildrenshealthplan.org/providers .

Next step for Providers: Providers should share this information with their staff.

If you have any questions, please email Provider Relations at: providerrelations@texaschildrens.org. 

For access to all provider alerts: www.texaschildrenshealthplan.org/provideralerts.