Tex. Health & Safety Code § 161.061 · Subchapter F. DISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN AGREEMENTS FOR PAYMENT OF LABORATORY TESTS
LABORATORY INFORMATION REQUIRED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person licensed in this state to practice medicine, dentistry, podiatry, veterinary medicine, or chiropractic may not agree with a clinical, bioanalytical, or hospital laboratory to make payments to the laboratory for individual tests, combinations of tests, or test series for a patient unless:
(1) the person discloses on the bill or statement to the patient or to a third party payor the name and address of the laboratory and the net amount paid to or to be paid to the laboratory; or
(2) discloses in writing on request to the patient or third party payor the net amount.
(b) The disclosure permitted by Subsection (a)(2) must show the charge for the laboratory test or test series and may include an explanation, in net dollar amounts or percentages, of the charge from the laboratory, the charge for handling, and an interpretation charge.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.161.htm
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