Tex. Insurance Code § 4151.153: DISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN PATIENT INFORMATION PROHIBITED.

(a) A pharmacy benefit manager may not sell a list of patients that contains information through which the identity of an individual patient is disclosed.

(b) A pharmacy benefit manager shall maintain all data that identifies a patient in a confidential manner that prevents disclosure to a third party unless the disclosure is otherwise authorized by law or by the patient.

(c) This section does not prohibit:

(1) general advertising about a specific pharmaceutical product or service; or

(2) the request and receipt by a person of information regarding:

(A) a specific pharmaceutical product or service;

(B) the person's own records or claims; or

(C) the person's dependent's records or claims.

Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 7, eff. April 1, 2005.