88R7547 MPF-F
By: Raney H.B. No. 3915
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to services provided by freestanding emergency medical
care facilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 254.001(1) and (5), Health and Safety
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(1) "Acute care services" means outpatient medical
services, including radiology services, laboratory services,
immunization services, and other non-emergent physician services
["Department" means the Department of State Health Services].
(5) "Freestanding emergency medical care facility"
means a facility, structurally separate and distinct from a
hospital, that receives an individual and provides:
(A) emergency care, as defined by Subdivision
(2); and
(B) acute care services, as defined by
Subdivision (1).
SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 254, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 254.002 to read as follows:
Sec. 254.002. REFERENCE IN LAW. A reference in this chapter
to "department" means the Health and Human Services Commission.
SECTION 3. Section 254.1555, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
(a-1) A facility that provides acute care services may not
charge an emergency facility fee for providing the services.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.