Bill Text: TX HB4037 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to county authority to balance bill for county air ambulance services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-15 - Left pending in committee [HB4037 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB4037-Introduced.html
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| By: Howard | H.B. No. 4037 | |
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| relating to county authority to balance bill for county air | ||
| ambulance services. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 113.902(a), Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) Except as provided by Section 113.9025, the [ |
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| treasurer shall direct prosecution for the recovery of any debt | ||
| owed to the county, as provided by law, and shall supervise the | ||
| collection of the debt. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter Z, Chapter 113, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 113.9025 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 113.9025. BALANCE BILLING FOR COUNTY AIR AMBULANCE | ||
| SERVICES. (a) "Balance billing" means the practice of charging an | ||
| enrollee in a health benefit plan to recover from the enrollee the | ||
| balance of a health care provider's fee for a service received by | ||
| the enrollee from the health care provider that is not fully | ||
| reimbursed by the enrollee's health benefit plan. | ||
| (b) A county may elect to consider a health benefit plan | ||
| payment towards a claim for air ambulance services provided by the | ||
| county as payment in full for those services regardless of the | ||
| amount the county charged for those services. | ||
| (c) A county may not practice balance billing for a claim | ||
| for which the county makes an election under Subsection (b). | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
