2025 Texas Statutes
Insurance Code
Title 14 - Utilization Review and Independent Review
Chapter 4201 - Utilization Review Agents
Subchapter E. Utilization Review: Relations With Patients and Health Care Providers
Section 4201.203. Mental Health Therapy

Universal Citation:
TX Ins Code § 4201.203 (2025)
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Sec. 4201.203. MENTAL HEALTH THERAPY. (a) A utilization review agent may not require, as a condition of treatment approval or for any other reason, the observation of a psychotherapy session or the submission or review of a mental health therapist's process or progress notes.

(b) Notwithstanding this section, a utilization review agent may require submission of a patient's medical record summary.

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 727 (H.B. 2017), Sec. 4, eff. April 1, 2007.

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