Bill Text: TX HB208 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to provision to a patient of an itemized bill for health care services and supplies.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-02-27 - Referred to Public Health [HB208 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB208-Introduced.html
| 89R3034 AB-D | ||
| By: Harris Davila | H.B. No. 208 | |
|
|
||
|
|
||
| relating to provision to a patient of an itemized bill for health | ||
| care services and supplies. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 185.002(c) and (d), Health and Safety | ||
| Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
| (c) A health care provider may issue the itemized bill: | ||
| (1) electronically, including through a patient | ||
| portal on the provider's Internet website; | ||
| (2) through a hard copy delivered by mail or a common | ||
| carrier; or | ||
| (3) through a hard copy the patient or the patient's | ||
| designee obtains at the provider's place of business. | ||
| (d) A patient is entitled to obtain from the health care | ||
| provider an itemized bill: | ||
| (1) on request at any time after the itemized bill is | ||
| initially issued under Subsection (a); and | ||
| (2) through the patient's chosen method of issuance in | ||
| accordance with Subsection (c). | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
