Tex. Ins. Code § 562.056 · Subchapter B. UNFAIR METHODS OF COMPETITION AND UNFAIR OR DECEPTIVE ACTS OR PRACTICES DEFINED
CERTAIN METHODS OF PROMOTIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) It is an unfair method of competition or an unfair or deceptive act or practice in the business of discount health care programs for a discount health care program operator to pay any consideration to a health care services provider or employee of a health care services provider:
(1) to encourage an individual to claim a discount for prescription drugs under a discount health care program; or
(2) to include discount health care program information on a prescription for a drug or in materials accompanying the prescription.
(b) It is an unfair method of competition or an unfair or deceptive act or practice in the business of discount health care programs for a discount health care program operator to provide a person with written prescription forms that could reasonably mislead an individual to believe that the discount health care program is health insurance or provides coverage similar to health insurance.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 573 (H.B. 3028), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2015.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/IN/htm/IN.562.htm
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