Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

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1	1	89R2961 AB-D
2	2	By: Harris Davila H.B. No. 216
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7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to itemized billing for health care services and supplies
10	10	provided by health care providers.
11	11	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	12	SECTION 1. Section 185.002, Health and Safety Code, is
13	13	amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (c-1) to
14	14	read as follows:
15	15	(c) Except as provided by Subsection (c-1), a [A] health
16	16	care provider may issue the itemized bill electronically, including
17	17	through a patient portal on the provider's Internet website.
18	18	(c-1) A health care provider that issues an itemized bill to
19	19	a patient electronically through a patient portal under Subsection
20	20	(c) shall:
21	21	(1) determine whether the patient has created a
22	22	patient profile on the portal; and
23	23	(2) if the health care provider determines that the
24	24	patient has not created a patient portal, mail a copy of the
25	25	itemized bill to the patient.
26	26	SECTION 2. Section 185.003, Health and Safety Code, is
27	27	amended to read as follows:
28	28	Sec. 185.003. DISCIPLINARY ACTION BY LICENSING
29	29	AUTHORITY. The appropriate licensing authority shall take
30	30	disciplinary action against a health care [the] provider that
31	31	violates this chapter [for the violation] as if the provider
32	32	violated an applicable licensing law.
33	33	SECTION 3. Section 185.002, Health and Safety Code, as
34	34	amended by this Act, applies only to an itemized bill issued on or
35	35	after the effective date of this Act. An itemized bill issued before
36	36	the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on
37	37	the date the itemized bill was issued, and the former law is
38	38	continued in effect for that purpose.
39	39	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.