Tex. Ins. Code § 843.053 · Subchapter B. APPLICABILITY OF AND CONSTRUCTION WITH OTHER LAWS
LAWS RELATING TO RESTRAINT OF TRADE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A health maintenance organization that contracts with a health facility or enters into an independent contractual arrangement with physicians or providers practicing individually or as a group is not, because of the contract or arrangement, considered to have entered into a conspiracy in restraint of trade in violation of Sections 15.01-15.26, Business & Commerce Code.
(b) Notwithstanding any other law, a physician who contracts with one or more physicians in the process of conducting activities that are permitted by law but that do not require a certificate of authority under this chapter is not, because of the contract, considered to have entered into a conspiracy in restraint of trade in violation of Sections 15.01-15.26, Business & Commerce Code.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1419, Sec. 1, eff. June 1, 2003.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/IN/htm/IN.843.htm
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Insurance Code
- Tex. Ins. Code § 843.072AUTHORIZATION REQUIRED TO ACT AS HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION.Printed as Section 843.051(e), 843.053, 843.073, or 843.318
- Tex. Ins. Code § 844.002EXCEPTIONS.Printed as Section 843.053 or 843.073
- Tex. Ins. Code § 844.003EXCEPTIONS TO TEXAS HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION ACT.Printed as Sections 843.053 and 843.073
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