Bill Text: TX SB2122 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to itemized billing for health care services and supplies provided by health care providers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-13 - Referred to Public Health [SB2122 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB2122-Engrossed.html
| By: Hughes, et al. | S.B. No. 2122 | |
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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 an individual or | ||
| facility licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized to | ||
| administer health care services or supplies in this state in the | ||
| ordinary course of business or professional practice, including a | ||
| physician or a hospital. | ||
| (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. (a) A health care | ||
| provider who requests payment from a patient for a health care | ||
| service or related supply provided to the patient shall submit with | ||
| the request a written, itemized bill of charges for all health care | ||
| services and supplies provided to the patient during the patient's | ||
| visit to the provider. | ||
| (b) The itemized bill must include: | ||
| (1) the amount the health care provider agrees to | ||
| accept as full payment for each health care service and supply | ||
| provided to the patient by that provider; | ||
| (2) a plain language description of each discrete | ||
| health care service or supply; and | ||
| (3) if reimbursement is sought from a third party, any | ||
| billing code submitted to the third party and the amounts billed to | ||
| and paid by that third party. | ||
| (c) A health care provider may issue the itemized bill | ||
| electronically, including through a patient portal on the | ||
| provider's Internet website. | ||
| (d) A patient is entitled to obtain from the health care | ||
| provider an itemized bill on request at any time after the itemized | ||
| bill is initially issued under Subsection (a). | ||
| (e) A health care provider may not pursue debt collection | ||
| against a patient for a provided health care service or supply | ||
| unless the provider has complied with this section. | ||
| 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. | ||
