Bill Text: TX HB2785 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to notice of discount of certain charges by certain hospitals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-24 - Left pending in committee [HB2785 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB2785-Introduced.html
  86R2596 JCG-D
 
  By: Burrows H.B. No. 2785
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to notice of discount of certain charges by certain
  hospitals.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 311, Health and Safety
  Code, is amended by adding Section 311.0015 to read as follows:
         Sec. 311.0015.  NOTICE OF DISCOUNTS. (a)  In this section,
  "hospital" means a hospital owned or operated by this state or a
  political subdivision of this state.
         (b)  A hospital that discounts a billed charge for a health
  care service for a patient who pays cash for the service must notify
  patients of that discounted price for the service, including a
  patient who is covered by a health benefit plan in which a
  third-party payor, including an insurer, pays all or part of the
  price of the service.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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