Texas Insurance Code - Not Codified - Article 29.01. Findings And Purposes
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Art. 29.01. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.
Text of article effective until September 1, 2007
The legislature finds that joint negotiation by competing
physicians of certain terms and conditions of contracts with health
plans will result in procompetitive effects in the absence of any
express or implied threat of retaliatory joint action, such as a
boycott or strike, by physicians. Although the legislature finds
that joint negotiations over fee-related terms may in some
circumstances yield anticompetitive effects, it also recognizes
that there are instances in which health plans dominate the market
to such a degree that fair negotiations between physicians and the
plan are unobtainable absent any joint action on behalf of
physicians. In these instances, health plans have the ability to
virtually dictate the terms of the contracts they offer physicians.
Consequently, the legislature finds it appropriate and necessary to
authorize joint negotiations on fee-related and other issues where
it determines that such imbalances exist.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1586, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Article: 25.04 25.05 25.06 25.07 25.08 25.09 25.10 29.01 29.02 29.03 29.04 29.05 29.06 29.07 29.08
Last modified: August 11, 2007
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