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Texas Occupations Code - Chapter 162 Regulation Of Practice Of Medicine

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  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.001 - Certification By Board
    (a) The board by rule shall certify a health organization that: (1) applies for certification on a form approved by the board; and (2) presents ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.002 - Limitation On Physician Fees
    A physician who provides professional medical services for a health organization certified under Section 162.001(c) shall provide those services free of charge, or at a ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.003 - Refusal To Certify; Revocation
    On a determination that a health organization is established, organized, or operated in violation of or with the intent to violate this subtitle, the board: ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.051 - Authority To Form Certain Jointly Owned Entities
    (a) Except as provided by Section 165.155, a physician and an optometrist or therapeutic optometrist may, for a purpose described by Subsection (b), organize, jointly ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.052 - Notice Of Certain Ownership Interests
    (a) In this section, "niche hospital" has the meaning assigned by Section 105.002. (b) A physician shall notify the Department of State Health Services of ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.101 - Definition
    In this subchapter, "outpatient setting" means a facility, clinic, center, office, or other setting that is not part of a licensed hospital or a licensed ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.102 - Rules
    (a) The board by rule shall establish the minimum standards for anesthesia services provided in an outpatient setting by a person licensed by the board. ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.103 - Applicability
    Rules adopted by the board under this subchapter do not apply to: (1) an outpatient setting in which only local anesthesia, peripheral nerve blocks, or ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.104 - Registration Required
    (a) The board shall require each physician who administers anesthesia or performs a surgical procedure for which anesthesia services are provided in an outpatient setting ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.105 - Compliance With Anesthesia Rules
    (a) A physician who practices medicine in this state and who administers anesthesia or performs a surgical procedure for which anesthesia services are provided in ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.106 - Inspections
    (a) The board may conduct inspections to enforce this subchapter, including inspections of an office site and of documents of a physician's practice that relate ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.107 - Requests For Inspection And Advisory Opinion
    (a) The board may consider a request by a physician for an on-site inspection. The board, on payment of a fee established by the board, ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.151 - Definitions
    In this subchapter: (1) "Core credentials data" means: (A) name and other demographic data; (B) professional education; (C) professional training; (D) licenses; and (E) Educational ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.152 - Associations
    Each provision of this subchapter that applies to a health care entity also applies to an association that represents federally qualified health centers. For purposes ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.153 - Standardized Credentials Verification Program
    (a) The board shall develop standardized forms and guidelines for and administer: (1) the collection, verification, correction, updating, modification, maintenance, and storage of information relating ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.154 - Furnishing Of Data To Health Care Entity
    Not later than the 15th business day after the date the board receives a request for the data, the board shall make available to a ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.155 - Review Of Data By Physician
    (a) Before releasing a physician's core credentials data from its data bank for the first time, the board shall provide to the affected physician 15 ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.156 - Data Duplication Prohibited
    (a) A health care entity may not collect or attempt to collect duplicate core credentials data from a physician if the information is already on ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.157 - Immunity
    A health care entity or its designated credentials verification organization is immune from liability arising from its reliance on data furnished by the board under ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.158 - Rules
    The board shall adopt rules as necessary to develop and implement the standardized credentials verification program established by this subchapter. Added by Acts 2001, 77th ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.159 - Confidentiality
    The information collected, maintained, or stored by the board under this subchapter is privileged and confidential and not subject to discovery, subpoena, or other means ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.160 - Use Of Independent Contractor
    The board may contract with an independent contractor to collect, verify, maintain, store, or release information. The contract must provide for board oversight and for ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.161 - Fees
    (a) The board shall prescribe and assess fees in amounts necessary to cover its cost of operating under and administering this subchapter. (b) The board ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.162 - Gifts, Grants, And Donations
    In addition to any fees paid to the board or money appropriated to the board, the board may receive and accept a gift, grant, donation, ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.201 - Employment Of Physician Permitted
    A private nonprofit medical school that is certified under Section 162.203, that is accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, and that was appropriated ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.202 - Committee Established By School
    (a) A private medical school subject to this subchapter shall establish a committee consisting of at least five actively practicing physicians who provide care in ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.203 - Certification Of School By Board
    (a) A private school that retains a physician's professional income under Section 162.201 must be certified by the board as being in compliance with this ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.204 - Biennial Report
    A private medical school certified under Section 162.203 shall provide to the board a biennial report certifying that the school is in compliance with this ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.205 - Suspension Or Revocation Of Certification
    If the board determines at any time that a private medical school certified under Section 162.203 has failed to comply with this subchapter, the board ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.206 - Limitation On School's Authority
    A private medical school's authority to retain a physician's professional income does not apply to a physician providing care in a facility owned or operated ...
  • Texas Occupations Code Section 162.207 - Application Of Subchapter
    This subchapter does not: (1) affect the reporting requirements under Section 160.003; or (2) apply to a private medical school certified under this subchapter if ...
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