Tex. Insurance Code § 1201.060: REQUIRED DEFINITION OF "EMERGENCY CARE" IN INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP POLICY.
Where this section sits in the code
- INSURANCE CODE
- TITLE 8. HEALTH INSURANCE AND OTHER HEALTH COVERAGES
- SUBTITLE A. HEALTH COVERAGE IN GENERAL
- CHAPTER 1201. ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE
- SUBCHAPTER B. POLICY TERMS
An individual or group accident and health insurance policy that provides an emergency care benefit, including a policy issued by a corporation operating under Chapter 842, must define "emergency care" as follows:
"Emergency care" means bona fide emergency services provided after the sudden onset of a medical condition manifesting itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity, including severe pain, such that the absence of immediate medical attention could reasonably be expected to result in:
(1) placing the patient's health in serious jeopardy;
(2) serious impairment to bodily functions; or
(3) serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part.
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 3, eff. April 1, 2005.
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