Tex. Health & Safety Code § 185.003 · Chapter 185. HEALTH CARE BILLING
DISCIPLINARY ACTION BY LICENSING AUTHORITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The appropriate licensing authority shall take disciplinary action against a health care provider that violates this chapter as if the provider violated an applicable licensing law.
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to a health care provider that in good faith mails a hard copy of an itemized bill to a patient if:
(1) the mailed copy is returned as undeliverable or lost; or
(2) the address on file for the patient was not current at the time the itemized bill was mailed.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 271 (S.B. 490), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2023.
Amended by:
Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 717 (H.B. 216), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2025.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.185.htm
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- sha256 6f6558af32e896755f16c3a64edf5c9a0cb30d6e6461de2d3c203ceea116d40b
- 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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