Bill Text: TX HB335 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the payments and reimbursements for noncontracting and contracting provider dentists under certain health benefit plans.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-19 - Withdrawn from schedule [HB335 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB335-Introduced.html
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| By: Cortez | H.B. No. 335 | |
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| relating to the payments and reimbursements for noncontracting and | ||
| contracting provider dentists under certain health benefit plans. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 1451.206(a), Insurance Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The employee benefit plan or health insurance policy | ||
| shall: | ||
| (1) provide: | ||
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| plan or policy may assign the right to payment or reimbursement to | ||
| the dentist who provides the dental care services; and | ||
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| reimbursement that provide the dentist 100 percent of the | ||
| contracted amount of the payment or reimbursement and that do not | ||
| require the dentist to incur a fee to access the payment or | ||
| reimbursement; and | ||
| (2) disclose on the Internet website required under | ||
| Section 1451.205 and on request of a dentist or a party to or | ||
| beneficiary of the plan or policy the fees, if any, associated with | ||
| the methods of payment or reimbursement available under the plan or | ||
| policy. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 1451.206, Insurance Code, as amended by | ||
| this Act, applies only to a health benefit plan delivered, issued | ||
| for delivery, or renewed on or after January 1, 2026. A plan | ||
| delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed before January 1, 2026, | ||
| is governed by the law as it existed immediately before the | ||
| effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for | ||
| that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
