Texas Health And Safety Code Title 4, Chapter 311 - Powers And Duties Of Hospitals
SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 311.001 - Special Hospital Requirements For Graduate Of Foreign Medical School Prohibited
(a) A hospital may not, as a condition to beginning a hospital internship or residency, require a United States citizen who resides in this state...
- Texas Section 311.002 - Itemized Statement Of Billed Services
(a) Each hospital shall develop, implement, and enforce a written policy for the billing of hospital services and supplies. The policy must include: (1) a...
- Texas Section 311.0025 - Audits Of Billing
(a) A hospital, treatment facility, mental health facility, or health care professional may not submit to a patient or a third party payor a bill...
- Texas Section 311.003 - Reimbursement For Infant Transport To Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
(a) A hospital that agrees to admit an infant into its level III neonatal intensive care unit shall pay for the part of the cost...
SUBCHAPTER B EMERGENCY SERVICES
- Texas Section 311.004 - Standardized Patient Risk Identification System
(a) In this section: (1) "Department" means the Department of State Health Services. (2) "Hospital" means a general or special hospital as defined by Section...
- Texas Section 311.021 - Definition
In this subchapter, "emergency services" means services that are usually and customarily available at a hospital and that must be provided immediately to: (1) sustain...
- Texas Section 311.022 - Discrimination Prohibited In Denial Of Services; Criminal Penalties
(a) An officer, employee, or medical staff member of a general hospital may not deny emergency services because a person cannot establish the person's ability...
- Texas Section 311.023 - No Liability For Failure To Provide Emergency Services After Good Faith Effort
An employee of a general hospital that does not have physician services available at the time of an emergency is not in violation of Section...
SUBCHAPTER C HOSPITAL DATA REPORTING AND COLLECTION SYSTEM
- Texas Section 311.024 - Payment For Services Required
This subchapter does not relieve a person of that person's obligation to pay for services provided by a hospital if the person can pay for...
- Texas Section 311.031 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) Repealed by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1, Sec. 3.1639(69), eff. April 2, 2015. (2) "Charity care" means the unreimbursed...
- Texas Section 311.032 - Department Administration Of Hospital Reporting And Collection System
(a) The department shall establish a uniform reporting and collection system for hospital financial and utilization data. (b) The executive commissioner shall adopt necessary rules...
- Texas Section 311.033 - Financial And Utilization Data Required
(a) A hospital shall submit to the department financial and utilization data for that hospital, including data relating to the hospital's: (1) total gross revenue,...
- Texas Section 311.0335 - Mental Health And Chemical Dependency Data
(a) A hospital that provides mental health or chemical dependency services shall submit to the department financial and utilization data relating to the mental health...
- Texas Section 311.035 - Use Of Data
(a) The department shall use the data collected under this subchapter to publish an annual report regarding: (1) the amount of charity care, bad debt,...
- Texas Section 311.036 - Data Verification
(a) Before the department may publish the report required by Section 311.035 or provide data to the public in any other manner, the department shall...
- Texas Section 311.037 - Confidential Data; Criminal Penalty
(a) The following data reported or submitted to the department under this subchapter is confidential: (1) data regarding a specific patient; or (2) financial data...
SUBCHAPTER D COMMUNITY BENEFITS AND CHARITY CARE
- Texas Section 311.039 - Exemption
A hospital may, but is not required to, provide the data required by Section 311.033 if the hospital: (1) is exempt from state franchise, sales,...
- Texas Section 311.041 - Policy Statement
It is the purpose of this subchapter to clarify and set forth the duties, responsibilities, and benefits that apply to hospitals for providing community benefits...
- Texas Section 311.042 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "Charity care" means those amounts defined as charity care in Section 311.031(2). (2) "Community benefits" means the unreimbursed cost to a...
- Texas Section 311.043 - Duty Of Nonprofit Hospitals To Provide Community Benefits
(a) A nonprofit hospital shall provide health care services to the community and shall comply with all federal, state, and local government requirements for tax...
- Texas Section 311.044 - Community Benefits Planning By Nonprofit Hospitals
(a) A nonprofit hospital shall develop: (1) an organizational mission statement that identifies the hospital's commitment to serving the health care needs of the community;...
- Texas Section 311.045 - Community Benefits And Charity Care Requirements
(a) A nonprofit hospital or hospital system shall annually satisfy the requirements of this subchapter and of Sections 11.18(d)(1), 151.310(a)(2) and (e), and 171.063(a)(1), Tax...
- Texas Section 311.0455 - Annual Report By The Department
(a) The department shall submit to the attorney general and comptroller not later than July 1 of each year a report listing each nonprofit hospital...
- Texas Section 311.0456 - Eligibility And Certification For Limited Liability
(a) In this section, "nonprofit hospital" has the meaning assigned by Section 311.042(9)(A). (b) This section applies only to a nonprofit hospital or hospital system...
- Texas Section 311.046 - Annual Report Of Community Benefits Plan
(a) A nonprofit hospital shall prepare an annual report of the community benefits plan and shall include in the report at least the following information:...
- Texas Section 311.0461 - Informational Manual
The department shall annually publish a manual that lists each nonprofit hospital in this state with a brief summary of the charity care policies and...
- Texas Section 311.047 - Penalties
The department may assess a civil penalty against a nonprofit hospital that fails to make a report of the community benefits plan as required under...
SUBCHAPTER E EMPLOYMENT OF PHYSICIANS BY CERTAIN HOSPITALS ASSOCIATED WITH NONPROFIT FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS
- Texas Section 311.048 - Rights And Remedies
The rights and remedies provided for in this subchapter shall not limit, affect, change, or repeal any other statutory or common-law rights or remedies available...
- Texas Section 311.061 - Applicability Of Subchapter
This subchapter applies only to a hospital that employs or seeks to employ a physician, that primarily provides medical care to children younger than 18...
- Texas Section 311.062 - Employment Of Physicians Permitted
(a) A hospital may employ a physician and retain all or part of the professional income generated by the physician for medical services provided at...
- Texas Section 311.063 - Duties And Hospital Policies
(a) A hospital that employs physicians under this subchapter shall: (1) appoint a chief medical officer, who may be a member of the hospital's medical...
SUBCHAPTER F EMPLOYMENT OF PHYSICIANS BY CERTAIN HOSPITALS
- Texas Section 311.064 - Construction Of Subchapter
This subchapter may not be construed as authorizing the governing body of a hospital to supervise or control the practice of medicine as prohibited under...
- Texas Section 311.081 - Applicability And Construction Of Subchapter
(a) This subchapter applies only to a hospital that employs or seeks to employ a physician and that: (1) is designated as a critical access...
- Texas Section 311.082 - Employment Of Physicians Permitted
A hospital may employ a physician and retain all or part of the professional income generated by the physician for medical services provided at the...
- Texas Section 311.083 - Hospital Duties And Policies
(a) A hospital that employs physicians under this subchapter shall: (1) appoint a chief medical officer who has been recommended by the medical staff of...
Last modified: September 28, 2016