Tex. Ins. Code § 1204.002 · Subchapter A. PAYMENTS TO CERTAIN PUBLIC HOSPITALS
BENEFITS PAYABLE FOR TREATMENT PROVIDED BY HOSPITAL OWNED BY STATE OR UNIT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
An insurance policy providing hospital, nursing, medical, or surgical coverage that is issued or delivered in this state after August 27, 1973, may not include a provision that prevents the payment of benefits for expenses of a nonindigent patient incurred in a hospital facility that:
(1) is owned or controlled by the state or by a unit of local government; and
(2) regularly and customarily demands and collects from nonindigent persons payment for those expenses.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 3, eff. April 1, 2005.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/IN/htm/IN.1204.htm
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