Bill Text: TX HB3862 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to notice of the cash price of certain health care services by certain hospitals.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-24 - Left pending in committee [HB3862 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3862-Introduced.html
86R13039 JCG-D | ||
By: Bohac | H.B. No. 3862 |
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relating to notice of the cash price of certain health care services | ||
by certain hospitals. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 311, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 311.0015 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 311.0015. DISCLOSURE OF CASH PRICE. (a) In this | ||
section, "hospital" means a hospital: | ||
(1) licensed under Chapter 241; or | ||
(2) owned or operated by this state or an agency of | ||
this state. | ||
(b) A hospital shall disclose the hospital's cash price for | ||
each health care service regularly provided by the hospital. The | ||
required disclosure must be made: | ||
(1) by posting the prices on the Internet website of | ||
the hospital; or | ||
(2) if the hospital does not have an Internet website, | ||
by providing the prices in writing on request to any person. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |