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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Health and Safety Code § 254.157: CERTAIN ADVERTISING PROHIBITED.

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  1. HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
  2. TITLE 4. HEALTH FACILITIES
  3. SUBTITLE B. LICENSING OF HEALTH FACILITIES
  4. CHAPTER 254. FREESTANDING EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE FACILITIES
  5. SUBCHAPTER D. REGULATION OF FACILITIES

(a) A facility may not advertise or hold itself out as a network provider, including by stating that the facility "takes" or "accepts" any insurer, health maintenance organization, health benefit plan, or health benefit plan network, unless the facility is a network provider of a health benefit plan issuer.

(b) A facility may not post the name or logo of a health benefit plan issuer in any signage or marketing materials if the facility is an out-of-network provider for all of the issuer's health benefit plans.

(c) A violation of this section is a false, misleading, or deceptive act or practice under Subchapter E, Chapter 17, Business & Commerce Code, and is actionable under that subchapter.

Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1093 (H.B. 2041), Sec. 6, eff. September 1, 2019.

Collected 2026-08-27T01:47:17Z. Source file · JSON

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