Tex. Occ. Code § 159.0061 · Chapter 159. PHYSICIAN-PATIENT COMMUNICATION
APPOINTMENT OF CUSTODIAN OF PHYSICIAN'S RECORDS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The board by rule shall establish conditions under which the board may temporarily or permanently appoint a person as a custodian of a physician's billing or medical records. In adopting rules under this section, the board shall consider the death of a physician, the mental or physical incapacitation of a physician, and the abandonment of billing or medical records by a physician.
(b) The rules adopted under this section must provide for:
(1) the release of the billing or medical records by an appointed custodian in compliance with this chapter; and
(2) a fee charged by the appointed custodian that is in addition to the copying fee governed by Section 159.008.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 984, Sec. 6, eff. June 15, 2001.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.159.htm
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