Bill Text: TX HB3565 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to prohibition of notification forms from health benefit plan issuers intended to intimidate patients; adding a provision subject to a criminal penalty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-20 - Referred to Insurance [HB3565 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3565-Introduced.html
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By: Bonnen of Galveston | H.B. No. 3565 |
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relating to prohibition of notification forms from health benefit | ||
plan issuers intended to intimidate patients; adding a provision | ||
subject to a criminal penalty. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 843.363, Insurance Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) A health maintenance organization may not, as a | ||
condition of payment with a physician, dentist, or provider, or in | ||
any other manner, require a physician, dentist, or provider to | ||
provide a notification form stating that the physician, dentist, or | ||
provider is not a participating provider to a current, prospective, | ||
or former patient, or a person designated by the patient, if the | ||
form contains additional information that is intended, or is | ||
otherwise required to be presented in a manner that is intended, to | ||
intimidate the patient. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 1301.067, Insurance Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) An insurer may not, as a condition of payment with a | ||
physician or health care provider or in any other manner, require a | ||
physician or health care provider to provide a notification form | ||
stating that the physician or health care provider is not a | ||
preferred provider to a current, prospective, or former patient, or | ||
a person designated by the patient, if the form contains additional | ||
information that is intended, or is otherwise required to be | ||
presented in a manner that is intended, to intimidate the patient. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |