Tex. Ins. Code § 1452.004 · Subchapter A. CREDENTIALING OF PHYSICIANS AND PROVIDERS BY HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION
LIMITATION ON COMMISSIONER'S AUTHORITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The commissioner may not require a health maintenance organization to:
(1) formally recredential a physician or provider more frequently than once in any three-year period;
(2) verify the validity of a license or certificate held by a physician as of a date other than the date of initial credentialing or recredentialing of the physician;
(3) use clinical personnel to perform a site visit for initial credentialing of a physician or provider unless clinical review is needed during the site visit; or
(4) require a site visit be performed for the purpose of recredentialing of a physician or provider.
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.1452.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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