Bill Text: TX HB1227 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to authority of the Hunt Memorial Hospital District to appoint, contract for, or employ physicians.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-04-23 - Referred to Administration [HB1227 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1227-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to authority of the Hunt Memorial Hospital District to appoint, contract for, or employ physicians.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-04-23 - Referred to Administration [HB1227 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1227-Introduced.html
86R7022 SRA-F | ||
By: Flynn | H.B. No. 1227 |
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relating to authority of the Hunt Memorial Hospital District to | ||
appoint, contract for, or employ physicians. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 1044, Special District | ||
Local Laws Code, is amended by adding Section 1044.0605 to read as | ||
follows: | ||
Sec. 1044.0605. EMPLOYMENT OF PHYSICIANS. (a) The board | ||
may appoint, contract for, or employ physicians as the board | ||
considers necessary for the efficient operation of the district. | ||
(b) The term of an employment contract entered into under | ||
this section may not exceed four years. | ||
(c) This section may not be construed as authorizing the | ||
board to supervise or control the practice of medicine, as | ||
prohibited by Subtitle B, Title 3, Occupations Code. | ||
(d) The authority granted to the board under Subsection (a) | ||
to employ physicians shall apply as necessary for the district to | ||
fulfill the district's statutory mandate to provide medical care | ||
for the needy and indigent residents of the district as provided by | ||
Section 1044.101. | ||
(e) The medical executive board of the district shall adopt, | ||
maintain, and enforce policies to ensure that a physician employed | ||
by the district exercises the physician's independent medical | ||
judgment in providing care to patients. | ||
(f) The policies adopted by the medical executive board | ||
under this section must include: | ||
(1) policies relating to: | ||
(A) governance of the medical executive board; | ||
(B) credentialing; | ||
(C) quality assurance; | ||
(D) utilization review; | ||
(E) peer review; | ||
(F) medical decision-making; and | ||
(G) due process; and | ||
(2) rules requiring the disclosure of financial | ||
conflicts of interest by a member of the medical executive board. | ||
(g) The medical executive board and the district's board | ||
shall jointly develop and implement a conflict management process | ||
to resolve any conflict between a policy adopted by the medical | ||
executive board under this section and a policy of the district. | ||
(h) A member of the medical executive board who is a | ||
physician shall provide biennially to the chair of the medical | ||
executive board a signed, verified statement indicating that the | ||
board member: | ||
(1) is licensed by the Texas Medical Board; | ||
(2) will exercise independent medical judgment in all | ||
medical executive board matters, including matters relating to: | ||
(A) credentialing; | ||
(B) quality assurance; | ||
(C) utilization review; | ||
(D) peer review; | ||
(E) medical decision-making; and | ||
(F) due process; | ||
(3) will exercise the board member's best efforts to | ||
ensure compliance with the policies that are adopted or established | ||
by the medical executive board; and | ||
(4) will report immediately to the Texas Medical Board | ||
any action or event that the board member reasonably and in good | ||
faith believes constitutes a compromise of the independent medical | ||
judgment of a physician in caring for a patient. | ||
(i) For all matters relating to the practice of medicine, | ||
each physician employed by the district shall ultimately report to | ||
the chair of the medical executive board for the district. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |