82R8534 YDB-D
By: Truitt H.B. No. 2576
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the amount charged by certain health care facilities
for health care services and supplies provided to consumers
receiving outpatient care.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 324, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 324.104 to read as follows:
Sec. 324.104. PROHIBITED CHARGES. (a) A facility that
provides inpatient and outpatient health care may not charge for a
health care service or supply provided to a consumer receiving
outpatient care at the facility an amount that exceeds the amount
the consumer's third-party payor pays, computed without
consideration of any copayment, deductible, or coinsurance for
which the consumer is responsible, for the same health care service
or supply provided by a facility to a consumer in an outpatient care
setting.
(b) This section does not apply to a service or supply
provided in a hospital emergency room.
SECTION 2. Section 324.104, Health and Safety Code, as
added by this Act, applies only to the charge for a health care
service or supply provided on or after the effective date of this
Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.