Tex. Occ. Code § 160.002 · Subchapter A. REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO MEDICAL PEER REVIEW
REPORT OF MEDICAL PEER REVIEW.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A medical peer review committee or health care entity shall report in writing to the board the results and circumstances of a medical peer review that:
(1) adversely affects the clinical privileges of a physician for a period longer than 14 days;
(2) accepts a physician's surrender of clinical privileges either:
(A) while the physician is under an investigation by the medical peer review committee relating to possible incompetence or improper professional conduct; or
(B) in return for not conducting an investigation or proceeding relating to possible incompetence or improper professional conduct; or
(3) adversely affects the membership of a physician in a professional society or association, if the medical peer review is conducted by that society or association.
(b) The duty to report under this section may not be nullified through contract.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 827 (H.B. 1998), Sec. 9, eff. September 1, 2023.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.160.htm
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Cited by 4 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Occ. Code § 160.002. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Occupations Code
- Tex. Occ. Code § 160.012DISCIPLINE OR DISCRIMINATION PROHIBITED.Printed as Section 160.002, 160.003, or 160.004
- Tex. Occ. Code § 204.208DUTY TO REPORT; MEDICAL PEER REVIEW.Printed as Sections 160.002, 160.003, 160.006, 160.007(d), 160.009, 160.013, 160.014, and 160.015
- Tex. Occ. Code § 205.304PROFESSIONAL REVIEW ACTION.Printed as Sections 160.002, 160.003, 160.006, 160.007(d), 160.013, 160.014, and 160.015
- Tex. Occ. Code § 206.159IMMUNITY AND REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.Printed as Sections 160.002, 160.003, 160.006, 160.007, 160.009, 160.013, and 160.014
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