Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

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1	1	89R7417 LRM-D
2	2	By: Hughes S.B. No. 669
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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 185.001(2), Health and Safety Code, is
13	13	amended to read as follows:
14	14	(2) "Health care provider" means an individual or [a]
15	15	facility licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized to provide
16	16	health care services or supplies in this state in the ordinary
17	17	course of business, including a physician, nurse practitioner,
18	18	physician assistant, or hospital [, except the term does not
19	19	include a federally-qualified health center, as defined by 42
20	20	U.S.C. Section 1396d(l)(2)(B)].
21	21	SECTION 2. Section 185.002, Health and Safety Code, is
22	22	amended by amending Subsections (c) and (d) and adding Subsection
23	23	(c-1) to read as follows:
24	24	(c) Except as provided by Subsection (c-1), a [A] health
25	25	care provider may issue the itemized bill:
26	26	(1) electronically, including through a patient
27	27	portal on the provider's Internet website;
28	28	(2) through a hard copy delivered by mail or a common
29	29	carrier; or
30	30	(3) through a hard copy the patient or the patient's
31	31	designee obtains at the provider's place of business.
32	32	(c-1) A health care provider that issues an itemized bill to
33	33	a patient electronically through a patient portal under Subsection
34	34	(c)(1) shall:
35	35	(1) determine whether the patient has created a
36	36	patient profile on the portal; and
37	37	(2) if the health care provider determines that the
38	38	patient has not created a patient profile, mail a copy of the
39	39	itemized bill to the patient as described by Subsection (c)(2).
40	40	(d) A patient is entitled to obtain from the health care
41	41	provider an itemized bill:
42	42	(1) on request at any time after the itemized bill is
43	43	initially issued under Subsection (a); and
44	44	(2) through the patient's chosen method of issuance in
45	45	accordance with Subsection (c).
46	46	SECTION 3. Section 185.003, Health and Safety Code, is
47	47	amended to read as follows:
48	48	Sec. 185.003. DISCIPLINARY ACTION BY LICENSING
49	49	AUTHORITY. The appropriate licensing authority shall take
50	50	disciplinary action against a health care [the] provider that
51	51	violates this chapter [for the violation] as if the provider
52	52	violated an applicable licensing law.
53	53	SECTION 4. Notwithstanding Section 185.001, Health and
54	54	Safety Code, as amended by this Act, a health care provider, as
55	55	defined by that section, that was not subject to the requirements of
56	56	Chapter 185, Health and Safety Code, before the effective date of
57	57	this Act is not required to comply with the requirements of that
58	58	chapter before January 1, 2026.
59	59	SECTION 5. Section 185.002, Health and Safety Code, as
60	60	amended by this Act, applies only to an itemized bill issued on or
61	61	after the effective date of this Act. An itemized bill issued before
62	62	the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on
63	63	the date the itemized bill was issued, and the former law is
64	64	continued in effect for that purpose.
65	65	SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.