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Tex. Insurance Code § 1355.053: REQUIRED COVERAGE FOR CERTAIN ILLNESSES AND DISORDERS.
Where this section sits in the code
- INSURANCE CODE
- TITLE 8. HEALTH INSURANCE AND OTHER HEALTH COVERAGES
- SUBTITLE E. BENEFITS PAYABLE UNDER HEALTH COVERAGES
- CHAPTER 1355. BENEFITS FOR CERTAIN MENTAL DISORDERS
- SUBCHAPTER B. ALTERNATIVE MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT BENEFITS
A group health benefit plan that provides coverage for treatment of mental or emotional illness or disorder for a covered individual when the individual is confined in a hospital must also provide coverage for treatment in a residential treatment center for children and adolescents or a crisis stabilization unit that is at least as favorable as the coverage the plan provides for treatment of mental or emotional illness or disorder in a hospital.
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 3, eff. April 1, 2005.
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