Bill Text: TX HB89 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to county and municipal authority regarding certain medical and health care billing by ambulance service providers.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-23 - Referred to County Affairs [HB89 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB89-Introduced.html
| By: Talarico | H.B. No. 89 | |
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| relating to county and municipal authority regarding certain | ||
| medical and health care billing by ambulance service providers. | ||
| 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 140.013, 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. Chapter 140, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 140.013 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 140.013. BALANCE BILLING FOR COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL | ||
| 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 or municipality may elect to consider a health | ||
| benefit plan payment towards a claim for air or ground ambulance | ||
| services provided by the county or municipality as payment in full | ||
| for those services regardless of the amount the county or | ||
| municipality charged for those services. | ||
| (c) A county or municipality may not practice balance | ||
| billing for a claim for which the county or municipality makes an | ||
| election under Subsection (b). | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
