Tex. Health & Safety Code § 164.005 · Chapter 164. TREATMENT FACILITIES MARKETING AND ADMISSION PRACTICES
CONDITIONING EMPLOYEE OR AGENT RELATIONSHIPS ON PATIENT REVENUE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A treatment facility may not permit or provide compensation or anything of value to its employees or agents, condition employment or continued employment of its employees or agents, set its employee or agent performance standards, or condition its employee or agent evaluations, based on:
(1) the number of patient admissions resulting from an employee's or agent's efforts;
(2) the number or frequency of telephone calls or other contacts with referral sources or patients if the purpose of the telephone calls or contacts is to solicit patients for the treatment facility; or
(3) the existence of or volume of determinations made respecting the length of patient stay.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 705, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.164.htm
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- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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