Tex. Health & Safety Code § 161.031 · Subchapter D. MEDICAL COMMITTEES, MEDICAL PEER REVIEW COMMITTEES, AND COMPLIANCE OFFICERS
MEDICAL COMMITTEE DEFINED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) In this subchapter, "medical committee" includes any committee, including a joint committee, of:
(1) a hospital;
(2) a medical organization;
(3) a university medical school or health science center;
(4) a health maintenance organization licensed under Chapter 843, Insurance Code, including an independent practice association or other physician association whose committee or joint committee is a condition of contract with the health maintenance organization;
(5) an extended care facility;
(6) a hospital district; or
(7) a hospital authority.
(b) The term includes a committee appointed ad hoc to conduct a specific investigation or established under state or federal law or rule or under the bylaws or rules of the organization or institution.
(c) The term includes a committee, including a joint committee, of one or more health care systems if each health care system includes one or more of the entities listed in Subsection (a).
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 655, Sec. 1, eff. June 11, 1997; Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 908, Sec. 3, eff. June 18, 1999; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1276, Sec. 10A.525, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
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