1. (a) The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) allows any office of a state health and human services agency to accept an initial application.
2. (b) HHSC contracts with third parties to accept applications from hospital districts (including state-owned teaching hospitals), federally qualified health centers, and county health departments.
3. (c) HHSC requires a personal interview with an initial applicant, unless the only applicant is a child.
4. (d) HHSC reopens a denied initial application, so long as the household complies with the missed requirements within 60 days after the date the application was submitted. HHSC otherwise requires the household to file a new application.
5. (e) HHSC reopens a denied review application, so long as the household complies with the missed requirements within 30 days after the last benefit month. HHSC otherwise requires the household to file a new application.

6. (f) HHSC may reopen an application for three months prior coverage if:

   1. (1) within two years after the application was filed, the applicant requests that the application be reopened; and
   2. (2) a Medicaid eligibility determination was not previously made for the three-month prior period.

Source Note:The provisions of this §366.711 adopted to be effective June 9, 2010, 35 TexReg 4661.