Bill Text: TX SB1845 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to itemized billing for health care services and supplies provided by health care providers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-26 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB1845 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1845-Introduced.html
| By: Schwertner | S.B. No. 1845 | |
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| relating to itemized billing for health care services and supplies | ||
| provided by health care providers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Title 2, Health and Safety Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subtitle J to read as follows: | ||
| SUBTITLE J. PAYMENT FOR HEALTH CARE SERVICES AND SUPPLIES | ||
| CHAPTER 185. HEALTH CARE BILLING | ||
| Sec. 185.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Debt collection" has the meaning assigned by | ||
| Section 392.001, Finance Code. | ||
| (2) "Health care provider" means a hospital or | ||
| freestanding emergency medical care facility licensed under | ||
| Chapter 254, Health and Safety Code. | ||
| (3) "Health care service" means a service provided to | ||
| an individual by a health care provider to diagnose, prevent, | ||
| treat, alleviate, cure, or heal a human health condition, illness, | ||
| injury, or disease. | ||
| Sec. 185.002. ITEMIZED BILL REQUIRED. Before a health care | ||
| provider pursues any debt collection against a patient for whom the | ||
| provider provided a health care service or related supply, the | ||
| provider shall issue to the patient a written itemized bill of | ||
| charges for all health care services and supplies provided to the | ||
| patient during the visit to the provider. The bill must include the | ||
| amount charged for each health care service and supply provided to | ||
| the patient by that provider and any other provider during that | ||
| visit. | ||
| Sec. 185.003. DISCIPLINARY ACTION BY LICENSING AUTHORITY. | ||
| The appropriate licensing authority may take disciplinary action | ||
| against a health care provider that violates this chapter as if the | ||
| provider violated an applicable licensing law. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
