Sec. 408.029. NURSE FIRST ASSISTANT SERVICES. An insurance carrier may not refuse to reimburse a health care practitioner solely because that practitioner is a nurse first assistant, as defined by Section 301.1525, Occupations Code, for a covered service that a physician providing health care services under this subtitle has requested the nurse first assistant to perform.
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 812, Sec. 9, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
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