Tex. Ins. Code § 1301.066 · Subchapter B. RELATIONS WITH PHYSICIANS OR HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
RETALIATION AGAINST PREFERRED PROVIDER PROHIBITED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
An insurer may not engage in any retaliatory action against a physician or health care provider, including terminating the physician's or provider's participation in the preferred provider benefit plan or refusing to renew the physician's or provider's contract, because the physician or provider has:
(1) on behalf of an insured, reasonably filed a complaint against the insurer; or
(2) appealed a decision of the insurer.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 3, eff. April 1, 2005.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/IN/htm/IN.1301.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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