Bill Text: TX HB3006 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the distribution and use of certain penalties paid by health maintenance organizations and insurers for violating certain provisions governing prompt payment of physicians and health care providers.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-14 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB3006 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3006-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the distribution and use of certain penalties paid by health maintenance organizations and insurers for violating certain provisions governing prompt payment of physicians and health care providers.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-14 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB3006 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3006-Introduced.html
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By: Coleman | H.B. No. 3006 |
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Relating to certain penalties paid to the Texas Health Insurance | ||
Risk Pool. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 843.342(m), Insurance Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(m) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, | ||
this subsection governs the payment of a penalty under this | ||
section. For a penalty under this section relating to a clean claim | ||
submitted by a physician or provider other than an institutional | ||
provider, the health maintenance organization shall pay the entire | ||
penalty to the physician or provider, except for any interest | ||
computed under Subsection (c), which shall be paid to the Texas | ||
Health Insurance Risk Pool. [ |
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SECTION 2. Section 1301.137(l), Insurance Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(l) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, | ||
this subsection governs the payment of a penalty under this | ||
section. For a penalty under this section relating to a clean claim | ||
submitted by a preferred provider other than an institutional | ||
provider, the insurer shall pay the entire penalty to the preferred | ||
provider, except for any interest computed under Subsection (c), | ||
which shall be paid to the Texas Health Insurance Risk Pool. [ |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect on September 1, 2015. | ||
SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the | ||
crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an | ||
emergency and an imperative public necessity that the | ||
constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three separate | ||
days in each house be suspended, and this rule hereby suspended, and | ||
that this act take effect and be in force from and after its | ||
passage, and it so enacted. |