Texas Insurance Code Title 8, Chapter 1217 - Standard Request Form For Prior Authorization Of Health Care Services

• Texas Section 1217.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Health benefit plan issuer" means an entity authorized under this code or another insurance law of this state that delivers or...
• Texas Section 1217.002 - Applicability Of Chapter
  (a) This chapter applies only to a health benefit plan that provides benefits for medical or surgical expenses incurred as a result of a health...
• Texas Section 1217.003 - Exception
  This chapter does not apply to: (1) a health benefit plan that provides coverage: (A) only for a specified disease or for another single benefit;...
• Texas Section 1217.004 - Standard Form
  (a) The commissioner by rule shall: (1) prescribe a single, standard form for requesting prior authorization of health care services; (2) require a health benefit...
• Texas Section 1217.005 - Advisory Committee On Uniform Prior Authorization Forms
  (a) The commissioner shall appoint a committee to advise the commissioner on the technical, operational, and practical aspects of developing the single, standard prior authorization...
• Texas Section 1217.006 - Failure To Prescribe Standard Form
  Nothing in this chapter may be construed as authorizing the commissioner to decline to prescribe the form required by Section 1217.004. Added by Acts 2013,...
• Texas Section 1217.007 - Construction With Other Law
  Nothing in this chapter may be construed as permitting a health benefit plan issuer or an agent of a health benefit plan issuer to require...

Last modified: September 28, 2016