Texas Occupations Code Title 3, Chapter 102 - Solicitation Of Patients

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 102.001 - Soliciting Patients; Offense
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly offers to pay or agrees to accept, directly or indirectly, overtly or covertly any remuneration...
• Texas Section 102.002 - Rebuttable Presumption
  It is a rebuttable presumption that a person violated Section 102.001 if: (1) the person refers or accepts a referral of a patient to an...
• Texas Section 102.003 - Federal Law; Construction
  Section 102.001 permits any payment, business arrangement, or payment practice permitted by 42 U.S.C. Section 1320a-7b(b) or any regulation adopted under that law. Acts 1999,...
• Texas Section 102.004 - Applicability To Advertising
  Section 102.001 does not prohibit advertising, unless the advertising is: (1) false, misleading, or deceptive; or (2) not readily subject to verification, if the advertising...
• Texas Section 102.005 - Applicability To Certain Entities
  Section 102.001 does not apply to: (1) a licensed insurer; (2) a governmental entity, including: (A) an intergovernmental risk pool established under Chapter 172, Local...
• Texas Section 102.006 - Failure To Disclose; Offense
  (a) A person commits an offense if: (1) the person, in a manner otherwise permitted under Section 102.001, accepts remuneration to secure or solicit a...
• Texas Section 102.007 - Applicability
  (a) This subchapter does not apply to a health care information service that: (1) provides its services to a consumer only by telephone communication on...
• Texas Section 102.008 - Disciplinary Action
  A violation of Section 102.001 or 102.006 is grounds for disciplinary action by the regulatory agency that issued a license, certification, or registration to the...
• Texas Section 102.009 - Injunction
  (a) The attorney general or the appropriate district or county attorney, in the name of the state, may institute and conduct an action in a...
• Texas Section 102.010 - Civil Penalties
  (a) A person who violates this subchapter is subject to a civil penalty of not more than $10,000 for each day of violation and each...

SUBCHAPTER B HEALING ARTS

• Texas Section 102.011 - Suit For Injunctive Relief Or Assessment Of Civil Penalty
  (a) The party bringing a suit under this subchapter may: (1) combine a suit to assess and recover civil penalties with a suit for injunctive...
• Texas Section 102.051 - Soliciting Patients; Offense
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person: (1) practices the art of healing with or without the use of medicine; and (2) employs...
• Texas Section 102.052 - Applicability To Physicians
  This subchapter does not apply to a practitioner of medicine subject to regulation under Subtitle B. Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff....
• Texas Section 102.053 - Exception For Certain Advertising
  Section 102.051 does not prohibit: (1) placement in a newspaper of an advertisement of the person's profession, business, or place of business; or (2) advertisement...
• Texas Section 102.054 - Accessibility And Use Of Witness Testimony
  (a) A person is not exempt from giving testimony in a proceeding to enforce Section 102.051. (b) The testimony a person gives in a proceeding...

Last modified: September 28, 2016