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

Tex. Insurance Code § 843.3042: CHIROPRACTIC SERVICES.

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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 I. RELATIONS WITH PHYSICIANS AND PROVIDERS

(a) A health maintenance organization offering a health care plan that covers a service that is within the scope of a chiropractor's license may not refuse to provide reimbursement to an in-network chiropractor for the performance of the covered service solely because the service is provided by a chiropractor.

(b) This section does not require a health maintenance organization to cover a particular health care service.

(c) This section does not affect the right of a health maintenance organization to determine whether a health care service is medically necessary.

(d) A health maintenance organization that violates this section is subject to an administrative penalty as provided by Chapter 84 of not more than $1,000 for each claim that remains unpaid in violation of this section. Each day the violation continues constitutes a separate violation.

Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 116 (S.B. 1739), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2019.

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

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