Tex. Ins. Code § 1357.054 · Subchapter B. HOSPITAL STAY FOLLOWING MASTECTOMY AND CERTAIN RELATED PROCEDURES
COVERAGE REQUIRED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A health benefit plan that provides coverage for the treatment of breast cancer must provide to each enrollee coverage for inpatient care for a minimum of:
(1) 48 hours following a mastectomy; and
(2) 24 hours following a lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer.
(b) A health benefit plan is not required to provide the minimum hours of coverage of inpatient care required under Subsection (a) if the enrollee and the enrollee's attending physician determine that a shorter period of inpatient care is appropriate.
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.1357.htm
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- sha256 644269857f6df5947b1a989225c39bfd71040df7b811726cfa42ce0d20dfea1e
- 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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