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
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By: Burrows | H.B. No. 2785 |
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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. |