Tex. Health & Safety Code § 593.074 · Subchapter D. FEES
MAXIMUM FEES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Except as provided by this section, the department may not charge for a resident total fees from all sources that exceed the cost to the state to support, maintain, and treat the resident.
(b) The executive commissioner may use the projected cost of providing residential services to establish by rule the maximum fee that may be charged to a payer.
(c) The executive commissioner by rule may establish maximum fees on 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 residential 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. 3.1450, 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.593.htm
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- 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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