Bill Text: TX HB4036 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to billing requirements for certain health care facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-24 - Left pending in committee [HB4036 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB4036-Introduced.html

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86R13327 SCL-D
By: Dominguez H.B. No. 4036

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to billing requirements for certain health care
facilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 324, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 324.1015 to read as follows:
Sec. 324.1015. BILLING STATEMENT; CIVIL LIABILITY. (a) A
facility's billing statement to a consumer must include:
(1) an itemized list of each health care service
provided to the consumer;
(2) an itemized list of each health care supply
provided to the consumer; and
(3) a list of each physician or other health care
practitioner licensed to provide health care in this state who
provided a health care service to the consumer.
(b) A consumer is not liable to a facility for any billed
charge on a billing statement that violates this section. If a
facility files a civil action against a consumer for a charge
described by this subsection and the consumer prevails in the
action, the consumer may recover reasonable attorney's fees and
costs.
SECTION 2. Section 324.1015, Health and Safety Code, as
added by this Act, applies only to a health care service provided on
or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.