2022 Texas Statutes
Insurance Code
Title 8 - Health Insurance and Other Health Coverages
Subtitle D - Provider Plans
Chapter 1301 - Preferred Provider Benefit Plans
Subchapter B. Relations With Physicians or Health Care Providers
Section 1301.052. Designation of Advanced Practice Nurse or Physician Assistant as Preferred Provider
Sec. 1301.052. DESIGNATION OF ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSE OR PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT AS PREFERRED PROVIDER. An insurer offering a preferred provider benefit plan may not refuse a request made by a physician participating as a preferred provider under the plan and an advanced practice nurse or physician assistant to have the advanced practice nurse or physician assistant included as a preferred provider under the plan if:
(1) the advanced practice nurse or physician assistant is authorized by the physician to provide care under Subchapter B, Chapter 157, Occupations Code; and
(2) the advanced practice nurse or physician assistant meets the quality of care standards previously established by the insurer for participation in the plan by advanced practice nurses and physician assistants.
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 3, eff. April 1, 2005.
