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

Tex. Insurance Code § 843.251: COMPLAINT SYSTEM REQUIRED; COMMISSIONER RULES AND EXAMINATION.

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  1. INSURANCE CODE
  2. TITLE 6. ORGANIZATION OF INSURERS AND RELATED ENTITIES
  3. SUBTITLE C. LIFE, HEALTH, AND ACCIDENT INSURERS AND RELATED ENTITIES
  4. CHAPTER 843. HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS
  5. SUBCHAPTER G. DISPUTE RESOLUTION

(a) A health maintenance organization shall implement and maintain a complaint system that provides reasonable procedures to resolve an oral or written complaint initiated by a complainant concerning health care services. The complaint system must include a process for the notice and appeal of a complaint.

(b) The commissioner may adopt reasonable rules as necessary or proper to implement the provisions of this subchapter relating to the complaint system and administer matters relating to the complaint system.

(c) The commissioner may examine a complaint system for compliance with this subchapter and may require the health maintenance organization to make corrections as the commissioner considers necessary.

Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1419, Sec. 1, eff. June 1, 2003.

Collected 2026-08-27T01:47:21Z. Source file · JSON

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