Texas Insurance Code Title 8, Chapter 1661 - Information Technology

• Texas Section 1661.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Health benefit plan" means a plan that provides benefits for medical or surgical expenses incurred as a result of a health...
• Texas Section 1661.002 - Use Of Certain Information Technology Required
  (a) A health benefit plan issuer shall use information technology that provides a participating provider with real-time information at the point of care concerning: (1)...
• Texas Section 1661.003 - Exceptions
  This chapter does not apply to: (1) a health benefit plan that provides coverage only: (A) for a specified disease or diseases or under a...
• Texas Section 1661.004 - Required Use Of Technology By Providers
  A physician, hospital, or other health care provider shall use information technology as required under this chapter beginning not later than September 1, 2013. Added...
• Texas Section 1661.005 - Refund Of Overpayment
  A physician, hospital, or other health care provider that receives an overpayment from an enrollee must refund the amount of the overpayment to the enrollee...
• Texas Section 1661.0055 - Use Of Technology: Waiver
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 1661.004, physicians or health care providers with fewer than five full-time-equivalent employees are not required to use information technology as required under...
• Texas Section 1661.006 - Health Benefit Plan Issuer Conduct
  A contract between a health benefit plan issuer and a physician, hospital, or other health care provider may not prohibit the physician, hospital, or health...
• Texas Section 1661.007 - Certain Fees Prohibited
  A health benefit plan issuer may not directly charge or collect from an enrollee or a physician, or other health care provider, a fee to...
• Texas Section 1661.009 - Rules
  (a) The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary to implement this chapter, including rules that ensure that the information technology used by a health benefit...

Last modified: September 28, 2016