Tex. Ins. Code § 4151.153 · Subchapter D. PHARMACY BENEFIT PLANS
DISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN PATIENT INFORMATION PROHIBITED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A pharmacy benefit manager may not sell a list of patients that contains information through which the identity of an individual patient is disclosed.
(b) A pharmacy benefit manager shall maintain all data that identifies a patient in a confidential manner that prevents disclosure to a third party unless the disclosure is otherwise authorized by law or by the patient.
(c) This section does not prohibit:
(1) general advertising about a specific pharmaceutical product or service; or
(2) the request and receipt by a person of information regarding:
(A) a specific pharmaceutical product or service;
(B) the person's own records or claims; or
(C) the person's dependent's records or claims.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 7, 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.4151.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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