Tex. Health & Safety Code § 552.016 · Subchapter B. INDIGENT AND NONINDIGENT PATIENTS
FEES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Except as provided by this section, the department may not charge a fee that exceeds the cost to the state to support, maintain, and treat a patient.
(b) The executive commissioner may use the projected cost of providing inpatient services to establish by rule the maximum fee that may be charged to a payer.
(c) The executive commissioner by rule may establish the maximum fee according to one or a combination of the following:
(1) a statewide per capita;
(2) an individual facility per capita; or
(3) the type of service provided.
(d) Notwithstanding Subsection (b), the executive commissioner by rule may establish a fee in excess of the department's projected cost of providing inpatient services that may be charged to a payer:
(1) who is not an individual; and
(2) whose method of determining the rate of reimbursement to a provider results in the excess.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1338, eff. April 2, 2015.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.552.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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