Texas Insurance Code Title 8, Chapter 1454 - Equal Health Care For Women

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 1454.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Health care provider" means a home health aide, hospital, nurse practitioner, nurse midwife, outpatient care center, physician assistant, registered nurse, or...

SUBCHAPTER B REIMBURSEMENT FOR HEALTH CARE SERVICES

• Texas Section 1454.002 - Applicability Of Chapter
  This chapter applies only to a health benefit plan that provides benefits for medical or surgical expenses incurred as a result of a health condition,...
• Texas Section 1454.051 - Equal Reimbursement Required
  A health benefit plan issuer that reimburses a physician or health care provider for reproductive health or oncology services provided to women must reimburse the...

SUBCHAPTER C ENFORCEMENT

• Texas Section 1454.052 - Reimbursement For Abortion Not Required
  This chapter does not require a health benefit plan issuer to provide reimbursement for an abortion, as defined by the Family Code, or for a...
• Texas Section 1454.101 - Sanctions Authorized
  The sanctions authorized by Chapter 82 apply to a health benefit plan issuer that violates this chapter. Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274,...
• Texas Section 1454.102 - Cease And Desist Procedures And Restitution For Attorney's Fees Authorized
  The commissioner may use the cease and desist procedures authorized by Chapter 83 against a health benefit plan issuer that violates this chapter. In accordance...
• Texas Section 1454.103 - Administrative Penalties Authorized
  (a) In addition to any sanctions authorized by this subchapter, the commissioner may impose an administrative penalty in accordance with Chapter 84 on a health...
• Texas Section 1454.104 - Amount Of Damages
  Notwithstanding this subchapter, in imposing a sanction or penalty for a violation of this chapter, the commissioner may order a health benefit plan issuer to...
• Texas Section 1454.105 - Applicability Of Certain Procedural Requirements To Sanctions Or Administrative Penalties
  Subchapter C, Chapter 84, applies to the imposition of a sanction or administrative penalty under this chapter. Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274,...
• Texas Section 1454.106 - Intervention In Proceeding
  (a) In a proceeding relating to the imposition by the commissioner of a sanction or administrative penalty under this chapter, a person affected by an...
• Texas Section 1454.107 - Time For Commissioner's Determination
  Not later than the 120th day after the date a complaint alleging a violation of this chapter is filed with the department, the commissioner shall...
• Texas Section 1454.108 - Failure Of Commissioner To Make Determination By Order; Action In District Court
  (a) If the commissioner fails to determine by order in the time prescribed by Section 1454.107 whether a violation alleged in a complaint filed under...
• Texas Section 1454.109 - Appeal Of Commissioner's Order
  (a) A person affected by an order of the commissioner regarding a violation of this chapter, including a person who intervenes under Section 1454.106, may...

Last modified: September 28, 2016