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| 1 | - | By: Dean, Frank | |
| 1 | + | By: Dean, Frank, et al. H.B. No. 1490 | |
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| 3 | 3 | ||
| 4 | 4 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 5 | 5 | AN ACT | |
| 6 | 6 | relating to notice of the cash price of certain health care services | |
| 7 | 7 | by certain hospitals. | |
| 8 | 8 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 9 | 9 | SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 311, Health and Safety | |
| 10 | 10 | Code, is amended by adding Section 311.0015 to read as follows: | |
| 11 | 11 | Sec. 311.0015. DISCLOSURE OF CASH PRICE. (a) In this | |
| 12 | 12 | section, "hospital" means a hospital: | |
| 13 | 13 | (1) licensed under Chapter 241; or | |
| 14 | 14 | (2) owned or operated by this state or an agency of | |
| 15 | 15 | this state. | |
| 16 | 16 | (b) A hospital shall disclose the hospital's cash price for | |
| 17 | 17 | each health care service regularly provided by the hospital. The | |
| 18 | - | required disclosure must be made by conspicuously posting the | |
| 19 | - | prices on the hospital's publicly accessible Internet website. | |
| 18 | + | required disclosure must be made: | |
| 19 | + | (1) by posting the prices on the Internet website of | |
| 20 | + | the hospital; or | |
| 21 | + | (2) if the hospital does not have an Internet website, | |
| 22 | + | by providing the prices in writing on request to any person. | |
| 20 | 23 | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |