Tex. Ins. Code § 1365.053 · Subchapter B. HEARING AID COVERAGE
CHOICE OF HEARING AID.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A health benefit plan that provides coverage for hearing aids may not deny an enrollee's claim for a hearing aid solely on the basis that the price of the hearing aid is more than the benefit available under the health benefit plan.
(b) Notwithstanding Section 1367.253(d), this section applies to a health benefit plan subject to Subchapter F, Chapter 1367.
(c) Nothing in this section requires a health benefit plan to pay an enrollee's claim for a hearing aid in an amount that is more than the benefit available under the health benefit plan.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 8 (H.B. 109), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2023.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/IN/htm/IN.1365.htm
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