Texas Occupations Code Title 3, Chapter 162 - Regulation Of Practice Of Medicine

SUBCHAPTER A REGULATION BY BOARD OF CERTAIN NONPROFIT HEALTH CORPORATIONS

• Texas Section 162.001 - Certification By Board
  (a) The board by rule shall certify a health organization that: (1) applies for certification on a form approved by the board; and (2) presents...
• Texas Section 162.002 - Limitation On Physician Fees
  A physician who provides professional medical services for a health organization certified under Section 162.001(c) shall provide those services free of charge, or at a...
• Texas Section 162.0021 - Interference With Physician's Professional Judgment Prohibited
  A health organization certified under Section 162.001(b) may not interfere with, control, or otherwise direct a physician's professional judgment in violation of this subchapter or...
• Texas Section 162.0022 - Health Organization Policies
  (a) A health organization certified under Section 162.001(b) shall adopt, maintain, and enforce policies to ensure that a physician employed by the health organization exercises...
• Texas Section 162.0023 - Disciplinary Action Restriction
  A physician employed by a health organization certified under Section 162.001(b) retains independent medical judgment in providing care to patients, and the health organization may...
• Texas Section 162.0024 - Contractual Waiver Prohibited
  (a) The requirements of this subchapter may not be voided or waived by contract. (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), a member of a health organization certified...

SUBCHAPTER B AUTHORITY TO FORM CERTAIN ENTITIES

• Texas Section 162.003 - Refusal To Certify; Revocation; Penalty
  On a determination that a health organization is established, organized, or operated in violation of or with the intent to violate this subtitle, the board...
• Texas Section 162.051 - Authority To Form Certain Jointly Owned Entities
  (a) Except as provided by Section 165.155, a physician and an optometrist or therapeutic optometrist may, for a purpose described by Subsection (b), organize, jointly...

SUBCHAPTER C ANESTHESIA IN OUTPATIENT SETTING

• Texas Section 162.053 - Jointly Owned Entities With Physician Assistants
  (a) A physician who jointly owns an entity with a physician assistant shall report annually to the board the ownership interest and other information required...
• Texas Section 162.101 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "outpatient setting" means a facility, clinic, center, office, or other setting that is not part of a licensed hospital or a licensed...
• Texas Section 162.102 - Rules
  (a) The board by rule shall establish the minimum standards for anesthesia services provided in an outpatient setting by a person licensed by the board....
• Texas Section 162.103 - Applicability
  Rules adopted by the board under this subchapter do not apply to: (1) an outpatient setting in which only local anesthesia, peripheral nerve blocks, or...
• Texas Section 162.104 - Registration Required
  (a) The board shall require each physician who administers anesthesia or performs a surgical procedure for which anesthesia services are provided in an outpatient setting...
• Texas Section 162.105 - Compliance With Anesthesia Rules
  (a) A physician who practices medicine in this state and who administers anesthesia or performs a surgical procedure for which anesthesia services are provided in...
• Texas Section 162.106 - Inspections
  (a) The board may conduct inspections to enforce this subchapter, including inspections of an office site and of documents of a physician's practice that relate...

SUBCHAPTER D PHYSICIAN CREDENTIALING

• Texas Section 162.107 - Requests For Inspection And Advisory Opinion
  (a) The board may consider a request by a physician for an on-site inspection. The board, on payment of a fee established by the board,...
• Texas Section 162.151 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Core credentials data" means: (A) name and other demographic data; (B) professional education; (C) professional training; (D) licenses; and (E) Educational...
• Texas Section 162.152 - Associations
  Each provision of this subchapter that applies to a health care entity also applies to an association that represents federally qualified health centers. For purposes...
• Texas Section 162.153 - Standardized Credentials Verification Program
  (a) The board shall develop standardized forms and guidelines for and administer: (1) the collection, verification, correction, updating, modification, maintenance, and storage of information relating...
• Texas Section 162.154 - Furnishing Of Data To Health Care Entity
  Not later than the 15th business day after the date the board receives a request for the data, the board shall make available to a...
• Texas Section 162.155 - Review Of Data By Physician
  (a) Before releasing a physician's core credentials data from its data bank for the first time, the board shall provide to the affected physician 15...
• Texas Section 162.156 - Data Duplication Prohibited
  (a) A health care entity may not collect or attempt to collect duplicate core credentials data from a physician if the information is already on...
• Texas Section 162.157 - Immunity
  A health care entity or its designated credentials verification organization is immune from liability arising from its reliance on data furnished by the board under...
• Texas Section 162.158 - Rules
  The board shall adopt rules as necessary to develop and implement the standardized credentials verification program established by this subchapter. Added by Acts 2001, 77th...
• Texas Section 162.159 - Confidentiality
  The information collected, maintained, or stored by the board under this subchapter is privileged and confidential and not subject to discovery, subpoena, or other means...
• Texas Section 162.160 - Use Of Independent Contractor
  The board may contract with an independent contractor to collect, verify, maintain, store, or release information. The contract must provide for board oversight and for...
• Texas Section 162.161 - Fees
  (a) The board shall prescribe and assess fees in amounts necessary to cover its cost of operating under and administering this subchapter. (b) The board...

SUBCHAPTER E EMPLOYMENT OF PHYSICIAN BY PRIVATE MEDICAL SCHOOL

• Texas Section 162.162 - Gifts, Grants, And Donations
  In addition to any fees paid to the board or money appropriated to the board, the board may receive and accept a gift, grant, donation,...
• Texas Section 162.201 - Employment Of Physician Permitted
  A private nonprofit medical school that is certified under Section 162.203, that is accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, and that was appropriated...
• Texas Section 162.202 - Committee Established By School
  (a) A private medical school subject to this subchapter shall establish a committee consisting of at least five actively practicing physicians who provide care in...
• Texas Section 162.203 - Certification Of School By Board
  (a) A private school that retains a physician's professional income under Section 162.201 must be certified by the board as being in compliance with this...
• Texas Section 162.204 - Biennial Report
  A private medical school certified under Section 162.203 shall provide to the board a biennial report certifying that the school is in compliance with this...
• Texas Section 162.205 - Suspension Or Revocation Of Certification
  If the board determines at any time that a private medical school certified under Section 162.203 has failed to comply with this subchapter, the board...
• Texas Section 162.206 - Limitation On School's Authority
  A private medical school's authority to retain a physician's professional income does not apply to a physician providing care in a facility owned or operated...

SUBCHAPTER F DIRECT PRIMARY CARE

• Texas Section 162.207 - Application Of Subchapter
  This subchapter does not: (1) affect the reporting requirements under Section 160.003; or (2) apply to a private medical school certified under this subchapter if...
• Texas Section 162.251 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Direct fee" means a fee charged by a physician to a patient or a patient's designee for primary medical care services...
• Texas Section 162.252 - Applicability Of Subchapter
  This subchapter does not apply to workers' compensation insurance coverage as defined by Section 401.011, Labor Code. Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch....
• Texas Section 162.253 - Direct Primary Care Not Insurance
  (a) A physician providing direct primary care is not an insurer or health maintenance organization, and the physician is not subject to regulation by the...
• Texas Section 162.254 - Billing Insurer Or Health Maintenance Organization Prohibited
  A physician may not bill an insurer or health maintenance organization for direct primary care that is paid under a medical service agreement. Added by...
• Texas Section 162.255 - Interference Prohibited
  (a) The board or another state agency may not prohibit, interfere with, initiate a legal or administrative proceeding against, or impose a fine or penalty...
• Texas Section 162.256 - Required Disclosure
  A physician providing direct primary care shall provide written or electronic notice to the patient that a medical service agreement for direct primary care is...

Last modified: September 28, 2016