Texas 2017 - 85th Regular

Texas House Bill HB2080 Compare Versions

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1	1	85R8894 LED-F
2	2	By: Collier H.B. No. 2080
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to disclosures regarding the provision of laboratory
8	8	services in certain health care facilities.
9	9	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	10	SECTION 1. Section 324.101(a), Health and Safety Code, is
11	11	amended to read as follows:
12	12	(a) Each facility shall develop, implement, and enforce
13	13	written policies for the billing of facility health care services
14	14	and supplies. The policies must address:
15	15	(1) any discounting of facility charges to an
16	16	uninsured consumer, subject to Chapter 552, Insurance Code;
17	17	(2) any discounting of facility charges provided to a
18	18	financially or medically indigent consumer who qualifies for
19	19	indigent services based on a sliding fee scale or a written charity
20	20	care policy established by the facility and the documented income
21	21	and other resources of the consumer;
22	22	(3) the providing of an itemized statement required by
23	23	Subsection (e);
24	24	(4) whether interest will be applied to any billed
25	25	service not covered by a third-party payor and the rate of any
26	26	interest charged;
27	27	(5) the procedure for handling complaints;
28	28	(6) the providing of a conspicuous written disclosure
29	29	to a consumer at the time the consumer is first admitted to the
30	30	facility or first receives services at the facility that:
31	31	(A) provides confirmation whether the facility
32	32	is a participating provider under the consumer's third-party payor
33	33	coverage on the date services are to be rendered based on the
34	34	information received from the consumer at the time the confirmation
35	35	is provided;
36	36	(B) informs the consumer [consumers] that a
37	37	facility-based physician who may provide services to the consumer
38	38	while the consumer is in the facility may not be a participating
39	39	provider with the same third-party payors as the facility;
40	40	(C) informs the consumer [consumers] that the
41	41	consumer may receive a bill for medical services from a
42	42	facility-based physician for the amount unpaid by the consumer's
43	43	health benefit plan;
44	44	(D) informs the consumer [consumers] that the
45	45	consumer may request a listing of facility-based physicians who
46	46	have been granted medical staff privileges to provide medical
47	47	services at the facility; [and]
48	48	(E) informs the consumer [consumers] that the
49	49	consumer may request information from a facility-based physician on
50	50	whether the physician has a contract with the consumer's health
51	51	benefit plan and under what circumstances the consumer may be
52	52	responsible for payment of any amounts not paid by the consumer's
53	53	health benefit plan;
54	54	(F) informs the consumer that laboratory
55	55	services related to the consumer's facility admission, stay, or
56	56	services may be provided by a laboratory that may not be a
57	57	participating provider with the same third-party payors as the
58	58	facility; and
59	59	(G) informs the consumer that the consumer may
60	60	request from the facility a list of the names and contact
61	61	information of the laboratories that typically provide laboratory
62	62	services for the facility;
63	63	(7) the requirement that a facility provide a list, on
64	64	request, to a consumer to be admitted to, or who is expected to
65	65	receive services from, the facility, that contains the name and
66	66	contact information for each facility-based physician or
67	67	facility-based physician group that has been granted medical staff
68	68	privileges to provide medical services at the facility; and
69	69	(8) if the facility operates a website that includes a
70	70	listing of physicians who have been granted medical staff
71	71	privileges to provide medical services at the facility, the posting
72	72	on the facility's website of a list that contains the name and
73	73	contact information for each facility-based physician or
74	74	facility-based physician group that has been granted medical staff
75	75	privileges to provide medical services at the facility and the
76	76	updating of the list in any calendar quarter in which there are any
77	77	changes to the list.
78	78	SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
79	79	a disclosure provided to a consumer by a health care facility on or
80	80	after the effective date of this Act.
81	81	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.