Tex. Occ. Code § 162.005 · Subchapter A. REGULATION BY BOARD OF CERTAIN NONPROFIT HEALTH CORPORATIONS
ANTI-RETALIATION POLICY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A health organization certified under Section 162.001(b) shall develop, implement, and comply with an anti-retaliation policy for physicians under which the health organization may not terminate, demote, retaliate against, discipline, discriminate against, or otherwise penalize a physician for:
(1) filing in good faith a complaint under Section 162.004;
(2) cooperating in good faith with an investigation or proceeding of the board relating to a complaint filed under Section 162.004; or
(3) communicating to a patient in good faith what the physician reasonably believes to be the physician's best, independent medical judgment.
(b) On a determination that a health organization certified under Section 162.001(b) has failed to develop, implement, or comply with a policy described by Subsection (a), the board may take any action allowed under this subtitle or board rule applicable to a health organization.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 771 (H.B. 1532), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2019.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.162.htm
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